Refreshingly unpretentious [and] narratively nimble.-- Art in America -- This is a vigorous, thought-provoking book that, after decades of urban boosterism, rightly draws our attention back to the suburbs. -- Times Higher Education -- Unadorned and unheated, a garage might seem like a utilitarian place. But in the analysis of Erlanger, an artist, and Ortega, an architect, the garage is a central space of 20th-century America, where modernism and suburban values collide with unexpected power. -- Atlas Obscura -- Garage is an unusual book for an unusual time in history. Erlanger and Govela elevate the humble architectural garage into a metaphor for how far we have strayed from what we thought we were so close to until so recently: objectivity, truth, authenticity and historical accuracy. It is my hope that Garage inspires future authors to open up and produce new histories of subjects long thought to be closed cases: a new history of the kitchen, the bedroom, the backyard, and perhaps even newer histories of the common garage. -- Archinect -- No one truly needs a domestic garage to park a car; space is available, if not readily, on city streets.

So why do garages exist? The reason may have nothing to do with parking. In their recent book, Garage , Olivia Erlanger, an artist, and Luis Ortega Govela, an architect, coin a term, 'garageification,' which describes a strange excrescence, initially unrelated to the central functions of the home, acquiring a life of its own and beginning to blend previously separate realms. -- The New Yorker -- As a model of historically informed cultural studies, Garage warns us to be wary of romanticizing this one-of-a-kind space, even as it underscores why we are so tempted to do just that. -- PopMatters --.