{"id":129,"date":"2008-03-04T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-03-04T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T17:41:36","slug":"architecture-shipping-containers-environment-recycling-style-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Love You, Inside and Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/9780060589233.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"PreFab Modern cover\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/9780060589233.jpg\" title=\"PreFab Modern cover\" alt=\"PreFab Modern cover\" align=\"right\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>I met Jill Herbers at a WBAI fete which she attended with a friend, then proceeded to spend almost all the rest of that evening talking to her. Thoughtful, more than a little opinionated, and utterly serious about the art and science of fabricating living spaces, what was not to love? I&#8217;ve grabbed her books: 1996&#8217;s <em>Tile, <\/em>and 1990&#8217;s <em>Great Adaptations<\/em> to find out more on her ideas. But I would have picked up 2004&#8217;s <em>Prefab Modern<\/em> for the cover alone. O.K.: The cover, and pages 50-59 alone.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The cover picture is of architect Adam Kalkin&#8217;s own Bernardsville NJ home. Pages 50-59 are where his ideas are laid out. Kalkin is architecture&#8217;s most hardcore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aavc.vassar.edu\/vq\/articles\/Containing-a-Home\"  target=\"_blank\">advocate<\/a> of the shipping container as a place to lay one&#8217;s head. In perhaps the ultimate proof-of-concept, he took a traditional 1800s gardener&#8217;s clapboard cottage and wrapped a 33-foot-high transatlantic container around it.<\/p>\n<p>The result is something you&#8217;d have never thought of in your dreams: Buildings that, though totally immobile, move through each other, creating a space that doesn&#8217;t so much say <em>past<\/em> or <em>future<\/em> as it does rapidly flit in and out of them at will. It&#8217;s almost as though one were watching the spacetime continuum ardently fake the illusion of stability, mere microseconds before its complete and total collapse. And, needless to say, I want one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Jill Herbers at a WBAI fete which she attended with a friend, then proceeded to spend almost all the rest of that evening talking to her. Thoughtful, more than a little opinionated, and utterly serious about the art and science of fabricating living spaces, what was not to love? I&#8217;ve grabbed her books: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,13,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}