Geography Of Home /anglais: Writings on Where We Live - Hardcover

Busch, Akiko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568981724 ISBN 13: 9781568981727

Verlag: PRINCETON ARCHI, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 163 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; "... first appeared in an earlier form as a thirteen-part series in Metropolis magazine between March 1993 and May 1994." -- T.p. verso. Other titles; Metropolis. Summary; The house is home to many things. Far more than four walls and a roof, it contains our private and public lives, our families, our memories and aspirations, and it reflects our attitudes toward society, culture, the environment, and our neighbours. In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, this book reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. It uncovers the hidden meanings of seemingly simple domestic spaces, in chapters ranging from "The Front Door" to "The Garage" and many others. These writings about the home touch on our culture's fundamental issues: the notion of family; the aging of the population; working at home; and respect for the environment. Subjects; Room layout (Dwellings). Interior decoration - Human factors. Personal space - Psychological aspects. Interior architecture. Architecture, Domestic. DOMESTIC SPACE - SOCIOLOGY. Social psychology. Architecture - Domestic. Interiors and interior decoration. Residential buildings, domestic buildings ; Cultural studies. ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential. Interior architecture ; Room layout (Dwellings).

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Críticas:

Akiko Busch doesn't so much look at houses as cock her head and listen to them. What she hears is the rustle of humanity within their all-too-mortal frames. "House and Garden", June 1999 With her light touch, Busch--at once learned and unpretentious--takes you through a tour of homes and homemaking that is rich in history and sumptuously detailed. 'Dining Room' tells, among other things, of how table knives lost their pointed ends when Louis XIV decided that the table was no place for dueling. Henceforth all knife-ends were to be rounded and a great leap was made, if not for mankind, then for manners...No corner of the home or habit of the mind goes neglected here; reading this, you will look on your house--from its public face, the front door, to the inner sanctum of the well-appointed bathroom--with new eyes. Dana Goodyear, "Pool & Spa Living", August 1999

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The house is home to many things. Far more than four walls and a roof, it contains our private and public lives, our families, our memories and aspirations, and it reflects our attitudes toward society, culture, the environment, and our neighbours. In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, this book reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. It uncovers the hidden meanings of seemingly simple domestic spaces, in chapters ranging from "The Front Door" to "The Garage" and many others. These writings about the home touch on our culture's fundamental issues: the notion of family; the aging of the population; working at home; and respect for the environment.

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• Verlag: PRINCETON ARCHI
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1568981724
• ISBN 13: 9781568981727
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168