Small Children Dictate Home Plan’
Uncovering the Influence of Childrearing Ideals on the Design of the Modern Post-war House
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12345195 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Collins (0000-0002-4018-0101, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-214 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10314610902849294 |
| OpenAlex | W2081487993 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Open plan living spaces have become ubiquitous in Australian housing today. These spaces gained popularity during the 1950s and 1960s, yet the reasons behind their enthusiastic adoption by many post-war families have remained under-explored. A determining factor in the introduction and acceptance of open plan living may be traced to dominant cultural ideas about the family and the role of the child, which not only allowed these architectural shifts but demanded them. This article considers how house design was influenced by the prevailing understandings of childrearing following the Second World War through the examination of 1950s South Australian architect designed house plans
Archaeology · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Popularity · Sociology · World War II · Architecture, Design, and Social History · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |