Title & Author:
Housing and dwelling : perspectives on modern domestic architecture / edited by Barbara Miller Lane.
Publication:
New York : Routledge, 2006.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Who interprets? : the historian, the architect, the anthropologist, the archaeologist, the user? -- An outline of European architecture / Nikolaus Pevsner -- Building the new house / Frank Lloyd Wright -- The nature and definition of the field / Amos Rapoport -- The world their household / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- The hallway / Tony Earley -- 3. What is home? -- Building, dwelling, thinking / Martin Heidegger -- A home is not a house / Reyner Banham -- The idea of a home : a kind of space / Mary Douglas -- Homeplace : a site of resistance / Bell Hooks -- 4. Domestic spaces as perceptual, commemorative, and performative -- The oneiric house / Gston Bachelard -- Architectural space and awareness / Yi-Fu Tuan -- The split wall : domestic voyeurism / Beatriz Colomina -- The American front porch : women's liminal space / Sue Bridwell Beckham -- Excavation and reconstruction : an oral archaeology of the deLemos home / Adina Loeb -- 5. Living downtown : nineteenth-century urban dwelling -- Alone together : a history of New York's early apartments / Elizabeth Collins Cromley -- The social meanings of housing, 1800-1840 / Elizabeth Blackmar -- YMCAs and other organization boarding houses / Paul Groth -- Inside the dwelling : the Viennese Wohnung / Donald J. Olsen -- Seeing through Paris, 1820-1848 / Sharon Marcus -- Public place and private space : the Victorian city and the working-class household / M.J. Daunton -- L'Assommoir / Emile Zola -- 6. Victorian domesticity : ideals and realities -- Privacy, security and respectability : the ideal Victorian home / Mike Hepworth -- The gentleman's house (or, how to plan English residences) / Robert Kerr -- The world their household / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Degas and the sexuality of the interior / Susan Sidlauskas -- 7. Rural memories and desires : the farm, the suburb, the wilderness retreat -- What a farm-house should be / Andrew Jackson Downing -- Thoreau's house at Walden / William Barksdale Maynard -- The home as a work of art : Finland and Sweden / Barbara Miller Lane -- Great camps of the Adirondacks / Harvey Kaiser -- Pattern in building and farming / Thomas C. Hubka -- Homes and gardens : the rural idyll / Mike Hepworth -- Home and work : the use of space in a Nebraska farmhouse / Dawni Freeman -- 8. Modernism, technology and utopian hopes for mass housing -- Program for the founding of a general housing-construction company following artistically uniform principles / Walter Gropius -- The dream of the factory-made house : Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann / Gilbert Herbert -- A revolution in the woman's sphere : Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt kitchen / Susan R. Henderson -- Modern architecture and politics in Germany, 1918-1945 / Barbara Miller Lane -- 9. Mass housing as single-family dwelling : the post-war American suburb -- The crack in the picture window / John Keats -- Picture window paradise / Curtis Miner -- Making the modified modern / David Smiley -- The American lawn : surface of everyday life / Georges Teyssot -- The rise and fall of the picture window / Sandy Isenstadt -- 10. Participatory planning and design : initiatives in self-help housing, renovation, and interior decoration -- Squatter settlement : an architecture that works / John Turner -- Self-help housing / Alison Ravetz and Richard Turkington -- S.T.E.R.N. work / Peter Davey -- The Byker wall / Mats Egelius -- Making a home in a Philadelphia neighborhood / Alice Gray Read -- Do it yourself : home improvement in 20th century America / Carolyn M. Goldstein -- The aesthetics of social aspiration / Alison J. Clarke -- 11. Twentieth-century apartment dwelling, ideals and realities -- The center of Paris / Le Corbusier -- Urban structuring / Alison Smithson ̃and Peter Smithson -- The high-rise estate / Alison Ravetz and Richard Turkington -- A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess -- High-rise living : what tenants say / J.S. Fuerst -- Vallingby / David Popenoe -- 12. Some possible futures -- How cohousing works : the Trudeslund community / Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett and Ellen Hertzman -- A prefab utopia -- what happens when a furniture company builds a community / John Leland -- Mobile homes : form, meaning, and function / Allan D. Wallis -- The mobile home on the range / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- Harriton Farm, Villanova PA, advertising brochure / Pohlig Builders -- Residential conversions / Norbert Schoenauer -- 13. Where is home? -- Attachment to homeland / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Filling dwelling place with history : communal apartments sin St. Petersburg / Ilya Utekhin -- Dwelling : making peace with space and place / Deborah Tall -- The shelter people / Bo Emerson -- Edgar Reitz's Heimat / Barbara Miller Lane.
Summary:
"Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture. The extracts are taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, literature and architectural writings."--Jacket.
ISBN:
041534655X (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415346559 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415346568 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415346566 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780203799673
0203799674
Subject:
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Added entries:
Lane, Barbara Miller.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 266231
Call No.: BIB 197901
Status: Available
