Extra Credit Assignmnet: Simone

The After the Suburbs exhibit was very intriguing to on many levels. Here I will focus on Travis Shaffer's Residential Facades, and how they demonstrate the privacy of the suburbs. The pictures of these homes are windowless buildings, an attempt to keep their neighbors out and place more emphasis on the privacy that life in the suburbs brings you. Looking t these pictures I began to reflect on homes I myself have seen around Atlanta's neighborhood landscape, and it appeared to me that there is a different between the far out suburban home and in the city urban home. The pictures I gathered through my own field-work reflect this. Not only are they designs of these urban homes more interesting and less cookie cutter, but they also include windows, large windows that take up much of the space on the outside of the structure. Perhaps the urban home is less private and in these environments they see the whole neighborhood as part of their home, so they embrace letting in the natural light and endless views of their neighborhoods through their window. Or maybe it is a form of residential vernacular, where homeowners use the all glass windows to display how modern and up to date they are in their design methods.