I actually have a lot of issues with the way contemporary residential kitchens are designed across the West

so many design features are inherited from an earlier era where part of the role of the kitchen was not just to produce food but to produce domesticity per se https://twitter.com/faineg/status/1265081909601800193">https://twitter.com/faineg/st...

The fact that homes are designed with the expectation that kitchens are eat in kitchens rather than that the food is prepared one place and brought to a different place is something that we think of as being totally natural but it is a consequence of specific design choices

That kitchen sinks in most detached homes are in front of a window to allow someone using it to gaze out at a yard that might have children in it is again a design choice that influences the way the rest of the kitchen can be laid out even though it& #39;s justification isn& #39;t culinary

I could continue to go on about lots of individual details but suffice it to say that kitchens are designed primarily to be a kind of symbolic heart of the home and a room for sociality and communal existence, rather than a utilitarian place to cook and prepare meals

And of course a home kitchen should not be designed identically to a professional commercial kitchen but there are many design precepts and features that could be very usefully incorporated, and reorient our understanding of what a home kitchen should be

Or in the short version: Peter T Charles doesn& #39;t like kitchens that seem to be designed to be warm and fuzzy and prefers kitchens that are designed to be functional, understandable, mechanistic