Title & Author:

Housing : symbol, structure, site / Lisa Taylor, editor.

Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Cooper-Hewitt Museum : [Distributed by] Rizzoli, [1990]
©1990

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-176).
Abide/abode -- The history of housing -- An enduring theme -- Housing and culture -- Amenities and comforts -- Houses are for living in -- The contradictions of housing -- Domesticity -- Housing styles -- Domestic architecture -- Residential interiors -- The toxic house -- Federal programs -- How Americans live -- The homeless -- Homelessness -- Reform movements -- Segregation and discrimination -- Design for special needs -- Family patterns -- Self-identity and the home -- Dreams and visions -- Territoriality -- Communal amenities -- The neighborhood -- Revolution in urban development -- Cityscapes -- Planned communities -- Retirement havens -- The suburban house -- Country and city -- Odd and unusual -- New towns -- The law -- Shelter magazines -- Architectural elements -- Builders' guides and plan books -- Transportation -- International building expositions -- Modern masterpieces -- Images of American life -- Residential construction -- Framing up -- Economics of housing -- Industrial villages -- Workplace and residence -- Workers' housing -- Homemakers -- Housing the military -- Egalitarian experiments -- Communal living -- Once upon a time -- Paper houses -- Domestic environments -- Stately mansions -- The client-decorator relationship -- Mail-order residences -- Industrial housing -- Mobile homes -- Scaled down -- Underground living -- Tensile structures -- Symbolic houses -- Industrial servants -- Homemakers -- The third world -- Indigenous architecture -- Housing in less complex societies -- Climate-responsive housing -- Second homes -- Houses in literature -- Gentrification -- Homes away from home -- Natural habitats -- housing in the future -- The future -- Colonies in space -- Selected reading.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

084781016X
9780847810161

Subject:

Housing United States.
Housing.
Dwellings United States.
Dwellings.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Domestic.
Housing United States History.
Housing policy United States History.
Dwellings United States Psychological aspects.
Architecture, Domestic United States History.
Logement États-Unis Histoire.
Logement Politique gouvernementale États-Unis Histoire.
Habitations États-Unis Aspect psychologique.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Histoire.
Habitations États-Unis.
Habitations.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
dwellings.
Housing policy
Dwellings Psychological aspects
Wohnungspolitik
Aufsatzsammlung
Wohnungsbau
United States
USA
Architecture, United States

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Taylor, Lisa, 1933-1991, editor.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main price related ephemera 267383
Call No.: BIB 47904
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 55621
Call No.: ID:90-B4081
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main price 267382
Call No.: BIB 47904
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available