Mason & Dixon questions

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
Adjusting the definition a bit, based on dimly recalled architectural
history seminars passed -- 

The Falanstery was not intended to be a self-sufficient terrarium-like
structure.  It was a structure intended to house the communitarian New
Man.  Think of it as a big apartment building housing a
narco-syndicalist commune. Family structure is suppressed, children are
raised communally, there is a central kitchen and group dining, group
bathing (a real advance in the mid-to-late 19th century, and a feature
of White's experimental workers' housing built at the foot of Joralemon
Street in Brooklyn), communal ownership of goods, etc.  The economy of
the Falanstery is outward looking rather than self-sufficient, based on
small manufactures and agricultural surplus.  A stupid idea, really...

Mark

--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >A phalanstery, for those who doesn´t know is some sort of utopical
> close
> >community, something like a building-city, a huge architectonic
> structure
> >for people to live in and never go outside because all their needs
> are
> >satisfied within.
> >------------------
> sounds like IG Farben to me--we don't need to trade or play markets,
> we just 
> need rape, pillage and conquest.
> 
> Rich
>
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