Decoding Homes and Houses

Name: Decoding Homes and Houses
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ISBN: 9780521543514

ISBN-10: 0521543517

ISBN-13: 9780521543514

Edition: 2003

Authors: Julienne Hanson

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Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household object are appropriate in each setting, how family members relate to one another in different spaces, and how and where guests should be received and entertained in the home. Decoding Homes and Houses introduces new, computer-based techniques designed to retrieve and interpret this wealth of social and symbolic information. The various representations and measures show how domestic space provides a shared…

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List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.69" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgements



An introduction to the study of houses



Tradition and change in the English house



Ideas are in things, with Hillier and Graham



Two domestic 'space codes' compared, with Hillier



Shaping the taste of middle England



Configuration and society in the English country house



Visibility and permeability in the Rietveld Schroder house, with Rosenberg



The anatomy of privacy in architects' London houses



'Deconstructing' architects' houses



Decoding dwellings: the way ahead