Reimagining both women’s household labour and the home environment, Gilbreth sought an efficient and body-centred kitchen
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Author Archives: Barbara Penner
How the London Playboy Club bankrolled Hef’s empire
Playboy, that great icon of American pop culture, owed its existence for many years to gambling revenue from Blighty
‘Koolhaas and AMO’s brand of research appears to have become weirdly self-affirming, like a methodological echo chamber’
Rem Koolhaas needs to get back to the fundamentals
‘The description of William Morris as “a master” reveals a rigid and overly literal idea of how Red House should be viewed today’
Building conservation can be about preserving a way of life
‘Adventure playgrounds were nothing less than an effort to foster social and political stability in the postwar era’
On the importance of children’ playgrounds
VIEWPOINTS: BARBARA PENNER
An ordinary house becomes an out of the ordinary cabinet of curiosities
