Housing and Dwelling Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

Name: Housing and Dwelling Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture
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ISBN: 9780415346566

ISBN-10: 0415346568

ISBN-13: 9780415346566

Edition: 2006

Authors: Barbara Miller Lane

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These essays on the history of domestic architecture collectively introduce scholars and students to the wide range of issues, approaches, interpretations and source materials available in this growing field of interest, while also giving the practicing architect a historical grounding in dwelling design and suggesting directions for future research. An innovative blend of contributions from traditional sources in history, philosophy and archaeology as well as fresh perspectives from, among others, oral history, gender studies and social sciences, this book encompasses an unprecedented chronological range and depth, and places domesticity in architectural and art history analysis in its…

Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English




Methods and Interpretations



Who Interprets? The Historian, the Architect, the Anthropologist, the Archaeologist, the Users?



What is Home?



Domestic Spaces as Perceptual, Commemorative, and Performative



Themes in Modern Domestic Architecture



Living Downtown: Nineteenth Century Urban Dwelling



Victorian Domesticity: Ideal and Reality



Rural Memories and Desires: The Farm, the Suburb, the Wilderness Retreat



Modernism, Technology and Utopian Hopes for Mass Housing



Mass Housing as Single-Family Dwelling: The Post-War American Suburb



Participatory Planning and Design: Initiatives in Self-Help Housing, Renovation, and Interior Decoration



Twentieth Century Apartment Dwelling, Ideals and Realities



Some Possible Futures



Where is Home?