Design
Is This the Suburban House 2.0?
Australian architects make an intriguing discovery when they peel back the layers of a McMansion.
In the rarefied air of architecture biennials, like the one that just wrapped up in Chicago, suburban architecture is less than an oxymoron—it basically doesn’t exist.
When talented building designers gather, they don’t spend much time thinking about the predominant way Western nations house their citizenry. It’s easy to blame suburbanites’ conservative tastes on this lack of engagement from designers, but one proposal at the biennial shined a light on architecture’s blind spot.