Walls Have Feelings by Shonfield Katherine;

Author:Shonfield, Katherine;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

For a moment, the time was right to challenge David Harvey’s ‘single most important fact’ about industrial capitalism: that ‘it forced a separation between the place of work and the place of reproduction and consumption’. The made-up, decorative office girls suggest another, fun-loving, possibility.

Notes

1 David Harvey, Consciousness and the Urban Experience, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985), p. 37.

2 ‘Paris – the Capital of the Nineteenth Century’ in Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, (London & New York: Verso, 1983), p. 155.

3 Ibid., p. 36.

4 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (USA: Guild Publishing, 1983).

5 Benjamin, op. cit., p. 167 (also quoted in this book’s Endpiece).

6 ‘With fingers busy at last, after long emancipation, they do “batik-work”, “poker-work”, “stencilling”, “fretwork”, “metalwork”, “lampshade work”, and any other work that can be devised.’ John Betjeman, ‘A Guide to the Recent History of Interior Decoration’, in the Architectural Review, May 1930, quoted in Mary and Neville Ward, Home in the Twenties and Thirties, (UK: Ian Allan Ltd., 1978), p. 63.

7 Griselda Pollock, ‘Modernity and the Spaces of Feminity’, in Vision and Difference: Feminity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, (UK: Routledge, 1988), p. 67.

8 F.R. Yerbury, editor, Modern Homes Illustrated, (London: Odhams Press, 1948), p. vxvii.

9 See discussions in Chapters 1, 2 and 3.

10 Previously quoted in Chapter 2. Brian Finnimore, Houses from the Factory: System Building and the Welfare State, (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1989), p. 103.

11 This notion is extrapolated from Catherine Ingraham, ‘Lines and Linearity Problems in Architectural Theory’, in Andrea Kahn, Drawing Building Text, (USA: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991), p. 69.

12 Quoted in translation in Benjamin, op. cit., p. 45.

13 Alfie (UK: Paramount/Sheldrake, 1966), director, Lewis Gilbert.

14 See Chapter 3.

15 Alfie’s own words.

16 Dennis Crompton, ‘City Synthesis’, The Living City (1963), article reproduced in A Guide to Archigram 1961–74, (London: Academy Editions, 1994), p. 88.

17 London Building Act of 1894, cited in S. Humphries and J. Taylor, The Making of Modern London 1945–1985, (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986), p. 55.

18 In 1881 there were 7,000 women clerks in England and Wales. By the year 1911 there were 146,000: the Civil Service in 1914 employed 600 women; in 1920 170,000; in 1911 women constituted a quarter of all clerical workers; in 1951 there were 2,123,500 office workers: 845,700 were men and 1,277,800 women. Statistics taken from Alan Delgado, The Enormous File: A Social History of the Office, (London: John Murray, 1979), pp. 46, 121 and 93.

19 Margaret Dent, quoted in Humphries and Taylor, op. cit., p. 56.

20 See for example The Architects’ Journal, 21 August 1968, p. 310, article on Seifert entitled ‘Think Big’: ‘One can only assume that architect Colonel Seifert and his clients must have that questionable adage “Think big” hung over their beds…’

21 The Seven Year Itch (USA: TCF, 1955), directors, Charles K. Feldman, Billy Wilder.

22 Manhattan’s share of the regions employment in accounting offices/commercial banks declined, but office employment grew by about 10 per cent between 1947 and 1956, from 753,000 to 830,000.

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