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Archives Toulouse. Le bbb centre régional d'initiatives pour l'art contemporain à Toulouse. Page d'accueil. Small Scale, Big Change | Casa Familiar: Living Rooms at the Border and Senior Housing with Childcare. The back-and-forth movement of materials, people, and ideas across the United States–Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana has long been an important focus of Teddy Cruz’s practice. In 2001 Cruz began working with the community-based nongovernmental organization Casa Familiar to develop a pilot housing project for an area of San Ysidro, an American city just north of the border. According to Casa Familiar—which advocates for and assists the marginal community in such areas as immigration services, education, and job placement—some two-thirds of San Ysidro’s homes are multifamily; the median income for residents is sixty percent lower than it is in the rest of San Diego County.

In addition to providing a new type of affordable housing, the team sought to stimulate political, economic, and social transformation. Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen. Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home? Over the course of the past century no other room has been the focus of such intensive aesthetic and technological innovation, or as loaded with cultural significance. Kitchen design has been both a central concern of modernism and fundamental to our concept of modern life. Drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection, this exhibition explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen as a barometer of changing technologies, aesthetics, and ideologies. The New Kitchen, an interwar design concept that embodied modernist principles of efficiency, hygiene, and standardization, appeared in numerous iterations throughout Europe and the United States.

These modern kitchens reflected an idealistic faith in the transformative power of art and technology to effect social change. Permalink Too Young to Marry1931. Sprucin’ Up1935.