The garage architecturally severed the home from its neighborhood, opening it to capital flows

Evidence

The reinvention of the link between home and city, where the car remade urban geography, keeping bodies separate, enforcing pathways directly from the bedroom and living room to the cubicle and boardroom, also required the remaking of domestic architecture via the garage. … “Built for the car,” write artist Olivia Erlanger and architect Luis Ortega Govela, the garage “exists as a space where the rules and relations inherent in the suburban home are seemingly absent.” Pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright, the garage was a particularly important element in an architectural dream that synthesized man and machine, domestic and industrial. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 196

Categorization

• DEFINE: Part of defining the ‘house’ infrastructure of the Corpocene model — the garage is the hinge where domestic architecture opened to flows of capital.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own ‘Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure’ piece — both treat a built artifact as infrastructure that restructures social relations.