Del paisaje al cajón para las camisas: la casa Davies de Anshen & Allen como obra de arte total
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Anshen & Allen concibieron la casa Davies (Woodside, California; 1940-1941) como una síntesis entre arquitectura, paisaje y diseño interior. El proyecto tomó como punto de partida un jardín preexistente diseñado por Thomas Church y siguió una lógica de continuidad que se extendió hasta la producción artesanal del mobiliario. Este artículo examina la casa desde la perspectiva del arquitecto como diseñador integral, donde cada decisión formal, técnica y material se articuló como parte de un conjunto coherente. A partir de documentación inédita custodiada en los Environmental Design Archives (EDA) de UC Berkeley, se reconstruye el proceso de diseño de esta residencia como una ‘obra de arte total’, al tiempo que se plantea como punto de inflexión entre dos paradigmas: uno basado en la integración disciplinar y otro definido por la estandarización y la fragmentación del espacio doméstico en la arquitectura residencial de posguerra.
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