PETER KING says that houses are not machines, but ‘organisms’ animated by us I was lying in bed one morning, with no plans other than to roll over. It was too early to get out of bed, and I had nothing to get up early for. As planned, at 7.00am the heating system clicked into…
Flooded Modernity - installation by Danish artist Asmund Havesteen-Mikkelsen (a replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye) PETER KING finds some household technologies turn security into anxiety, and convenience into control The modernist architect going by the name Le Corbusier famously described the house as “a machine for living in”. This view was very much associated…