Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780415346566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 480 str.

Barbara Miller Lane

Opis

These essays on the history of domestic architecture collectively introduce scholars and students to the wide range of issues, approaches, interpretations and source materials available in this growing field of interest, while also giving the practicing architect a historical grounding in dwelling design and suggesting directions for future research.
An innovative blend of contributions from traditional sources in history, philosophy and archaeology as well as fresh perspectives from, among others, oral history, gender studies and social sciences, this book encompasses an unprecedented chronological range and depth, and places domesticity in architectural and art history analysis in its wider intellectual context.

Spis treści

Part 1: Methods and Interpretations  1. Who Interprets? The Historian, the Architect, the Anthropologist, the Archaeologist, the Users?  2. What is Home?  3. Domestic Spaces as Perceptual, Commemorative, and Performative  Part 2: Themes in Modern Domestic Architecture  4. Living Downtown: Nineteenth Century Urban Dwelling  5. Victorian Domesticity: Ideal and Reality  6. Rural Memories and Desires: The Farm, the Suburb, the Wilderness Retreat  7. Modernism, Technology and Utopian Hopes for Mass Housing  8. Mass Housing as Single-Family Dwelling: The Post-War American Suburb  9. Participatory Planning and Design: Initiatives in Self-Help Housing, Renovation, and Interior Decoration  10. Twentieth Century Apartment Dwelling, Ideals and Realities  11. Some Possible Futures  12. Where is Home?

O autorze

Barbara Miller Lane is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Professor Emeritus of History, and Mellon Emeritus Fellow at Bryn Mawr College. She founded the College’s Growth and Structure of Cities Program and served as its director from 1971-1989, and again in 1996-97. She has published numerous books and articles on architectural and urban history.