Kitchenless House (M.S. Howland), 2002, wax, oil, pigment, resin on wood, 10.75 x 10.75 x 2.5 inches
Based on the architecture of Marie Stevens Howland (19th century).
Marie Stevens Howland was a proponent of collective housekeeping as described in her novel Papa’s Own Girl. She worked with Albert Kimsey Owen and John Deery on this housing design for the Pacific Colony of Sinaloa, Mexico in 1885. Four private houses made up one housing unit. All houses were connected to a central kitchen and laundry building.