Home : a short history of an idea / Witold Rybczynski.

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Rybczynski, Witold.

Title & Author:

Home : a short history of an idea / Witold Rybczynski.

Publication:

Description:

x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
Nostalgia -- Intimacy and privacy -- Domesticity -- Commodity and delight -- Ease -- Light and air -- Efficiency -- Style and substance -- Austerity -- Comfort and well-being.

Summary:

An architect discusses the idea of comfort and the Western cultural attitudes that have shaped it since the end of the Middle Ages, reviewing such cultural variables as intimacy and privacy, domesticity, ease, and ideas about light, air, and efficiency as they have changed over time, and making a plea for the primacy of cultural ideals as a basis for creating psychologically comfortable homes.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books
Donated in memory of Grace Blackburn

ISBN:

0140102310 (pbk.)
9780140102314 (pbk.)

Subject:

Dwellings Psychological aspects.
Personal space Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Habitations Aspect psychologique.
Espace personnel Aspect psychologique.
Architecture et société.
VIVIENDAS ASPECTOS PSICOLOGICOS.
ESPACIO PERSONAL ASPECTOS PSICOLOGICOS.
ARQUITECTURA Y SOCIEDAD.

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 153356
Call No.: NA44.R989.A6 1987
Status: Available

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