He called it that in the drawing.Not the living room, not the kitchen-diner, not the open-plan living space — the vocabulary of the container architecture, the terms that described the function without naming the quality. He called it the weight-bearing room on the plans, in the specification documents, in the design statement for the Farrow house that he was writing in the evenings in the Farrow notebook, the new document that was already twelve pages and growing in the way the library notes had grown — the hand following the eye, the thinking-in-progress preserved in the early morning and the late evening.He had told Owen and Miriam he was calling it that.Owen had said: yes. Miriam had said: what happens to the kitchen?He had thought about this. The weight-bearing room was not the kitchen — the kitchen was its own function, the preparation space, the making space. The weight-bearing room was the room where the kitchen table lived, the room adjacent to the kitchen, the room that
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