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Dwelling with architecture / Roderick Kemsley and Christopher Platt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLondon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012Description: ix, 235 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415569033 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415569040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 728 23 K.R.D
LOC classification:
  • NA7125 .K46 2012
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books Main library B10 Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Architectural) 728 K.R.D (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00010608

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.

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