Lincoln House

This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality. The goal remains to recover and spread pieces of architecture displaced to the periphery; although this time focused on the work of female architects. Este artículo es parte de la serie [Sí] , comisariada por Marta López García que busca ofrecer una vision sobre una realidad doblemente silenciada. El objetivo es recuperar y difundir obras de arquitectura que han sido desplazadas a la periferia, teniendo como punto de partida proyectos de mujeres arquitectas. Mary Otis Steven and Thomas McNulty, her partner at that moment, designed the Lincoln House as their family home and as proof that a different way of living beyond the American standard home is possible. Mary Otis Stevens y Tomas McNulty, su pareja en aquel momento, proyectaron la Casa Lincoln como su residencia familiar y como prueba de que otra manera de habitar y de entender las relaciones familiares, más allá de la que ofrece la casa americana tradicional, es posible. Before its construction, the couple had spent a year in Italy (1961-62) working on the design of the house and on their ideas around movement and social living beyond architecture and urban planning. Those ideas were later explained in their book ‘World of Variation’, which was published by themselves in 1970 after having funded i Press. From 1968 to 1978 they published a series of books on architecture with a social context, among which is ‘From tipi to skyscraper. A history of Women in Architecture’, by Doris Cole in 1973. La pareja vivió durante un año en Italia (1961-62) antes de comenzar la construcción de esta vivienda. Allí es donde la diseñaron y donde también trabajaron en sus ideas en torno al movimiento y el habitar en sociedad más allá de la arquitectura y el urbanismo.