Main entry:

Leven, David, 1964- author, architect.

Title & Author:

Thirteen ways of looking at a house / David Leven and Stella Betts, LEVENBETTS ; with Thomas de Monchaux.

Publication:

Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2021.
©2021

Description:

326 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Title and statement of responsibility from front cover.
Pagination does not count endpapers, which have colophon, table of contents, and other text.
(from table of contents) Case studies in a sense of place / by Thomas de Monchaux -- Thirteen house comparisons -- (Thirteen house topics). Open house -- Campsite -- Doors and windows -- Steps and stairs -- Corridors -- Courtyards -- Curtains -- Plumbing -- House plants -- Plans -- Structures -- Thick and thin -- Home -- (Thirteen houses by Levenbetts). A house of one shape -- A square house -- House without walls -- A house in a grid -- A house of lines -- A house and a house -- A house with three yards -- A snail house -- A house-shaped house -- A house in five shapes -- A garden in a house -- A house for the next site -- A house with a swerve -- Thick and thin -- Thirteen ways / by Thomas de Monchaux.

Summary:

"For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately stages ritual and routine, this most private of programs has become a medium of publicity and polemic. '13 Ways of Looking at a House' both participates in and critiques this contemporary tradition. The reader's attention in this examination is directed not only to LEVENBETTS' houses, but to all houses, and all parts of houses - pieces of home and rhetorics of domesticity that show up in our collective memory: from a stolen moment on a staircase in a John Cassavetes film, to the sturdy knife-edged contractor modernism of suburban late to mid-20th century America. '13 Ways of Looking at a House' is an accessible and universal book - everyone has a sense of home. The book includes 13 texts on domestic pieces that make up the house, comparative diagrams, construction metrics and anecdotes, informal photos, and structural details all in the interest of taking the house apart in order to put it back together"-- OCLC OLUC.

ISBN:

9781954081321 hardcover
1954081324 hardcover

Subject:

Leven Betts (Firm)
Architecture, Domestic 21st century Pictorial works.
Architecture, Domestic Expertising.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Pictorial works.
Architecture Details.
Architecture 21e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture Détails.
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Modern

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Betts, Stella, 1966- author, architect.
De Monchaux, Thomas, writer of supplementary textual content.
Leven Betts (Firm), author, architect.

13 ways of looking at a house

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315153
Call No.: 315153
Copy: 1
Status: Available