Dwelling with architecture /
Kemsley, Roderick.
Dwelling with architecture / Roderick Kemsley and Christopher Platt. - London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012. - ix, 235 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-228) and index.
Introduction -- The experience of place -- Constraints and preoccupations -- Dwelling and houses -- The building in the landscape -- The innocent and the sophisticated -- The cycle of learning.
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.
9780415569033 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415569040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011035108
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture--Human factors.
Architecture and society.
NA7125 / .K46 2012
728 / K.R.D
Dwelling with architecture / Roderick Kemsley and Christopher Platt. - London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012. - ix, 235 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-228) and index.
Introduction -- The experience of place -- Constraints and preoccupations -- Dwelling and houses -- The building in the landscape -- The innocent and the sophisticated -- The cycle of learning.
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.
9780415569033 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415569040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011035108
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture--Human factors.
Architecture and society.
NA7125 / .K46 2012
728 / K.R.D