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Book SynopsisDecoding 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 ContentsAcknowledgements; 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.
