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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957181603321

Autore

Kemsley Roderick

Titolo

Dwelling with Architecture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

9780203107140

0203107144

9781136260926

1136260927

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Disciplina

728

Soggetti

Architecture, Domestic

Architecture - Human factors

Architecture and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE: DUNVEGAN CASTLE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Dedication; ONE Introduction; TWO The experience of place; THREE Constraints and preoccupations; FOUR Dwelling and houses; FIVE The building in the landscape; SIX The innocent and the sophisticated; SEVEN The cycle of learning; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATION CREDITS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses. That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for sig