TR 1070 Lecture 18: 3-27 Perspectives on Leisure and Play
5 Jun 2018
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Great Leisure Mystery----something changed--why they kept declining
Consumerism
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Government supported work creation
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Cultural (beliefs and values) change
Rather than seeing work as primarily a means to an end
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Freedom, leisure was the end
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Leisure becomes subordinate after 20s and 30s
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Leisure becomes trivialized
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Work becomes an end in itself
Our culture looks to work rather than time outside of work for
humanity
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Reversal of the way things used to be understood--figure and
ground
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We forgot
Forgotten American dream--his chapter
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Frank Lloyd Wright
"And thou America…Whatever else withheld withhold not from us Belief
in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space"
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"plan of Thee" means freedom
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Time means leisure Space means buildings ???
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Architecture represents increased leisure
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Buildings are a metaphor
Free space, free time
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Wright Techniques
Form follows function
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The human function is to be free
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Use of modern materials- concrete and steel
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Glass and new technologies
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New design techniques --rearrange walls & open things up
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Technology liberates humans
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The experience of building
Intuitive and instinctive
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Oppressors --rent and mortgages
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Organic--build as you grow
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We become slaves to bank
Build your own home instead!
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Your leisure and your work become the same
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Usonian Houses
He thinks using existing technology and using simple plans of master
geniuses
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Walt Whitman
Poet
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Key representative of forgotten dream
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Progress proceeds in 3 distinct stages
Political
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Economic
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Higher
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When Jefferson writes about freedom it is limited to white, male, land owners•
Democratic Culture
Self help culture
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Do it yourself
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When we all will realize the American dream of democracy
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3/27 Lecture
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
2:01 PM
