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Decoding Homes and Houses uses a computer-based method of analysis to explore the relation between the design and layout of traditional, vernacular, speculative and architect-designed houses and people's evolving tastes, lifestyles, habits and domestic routines.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; 1. An introduction to the study of houses; 2. Tradition and change in the English house; 3. Ideas are in things, with Hillier and Graham; 4. Two domestic 'space codes' compared, with Hillier; 5. Shaping the taste of middle England; 6. Configuration and society in the English country house; 7. Visibility and permeability in the Rietveld Schroder house, with Rosenberg; 8. The anatomy of privacy in architects' London houses; 9. 'Deconstructing' architects' houses; 10. Decoding dwellings: the way ahead.

Decoding Homes and Houses

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 10/16/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521543514
      978-0521543514
      ISBN-10 0521543517
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      Theory of architecture Social groups, communities and identities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Decoding Homes and Houses uses a computer-based method of analysis to explore the relation between the design and layout of traditional, vernacular, speculative and architect-designed houses and people's evolving tastes, lifestyles, habits and domestic routines.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements; 1. An introduction to the study of houses; 2. Tradition and change in the English house; 3. Ideas are in things, with Hillier and Graham; 4. Two domestic 'space codes' compared, with Hillier; 5. Shaping the taste of middle England; 6. Configuration and society in the English country house; 7. Visibility and permeability in the Rietveld Schroder house, with Rosenberg; 8. The anatomy of privacy in architects' London houses; 9. 'Deconstructing' architects' houses; 10. Decoding dwellings: the way ahead.

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