The Canadian home: from cave to electronic cocoon
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1. Verfasser: Denhez, Marc (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto [Ont.] Dundurn Press 1994
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonize with the cosmic Muzak?The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of "colonial" homes, why "Tudor" is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong. But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 256 pages)
ISBN:1282808974
1550022024
1554883156
9781282808973
9781550022025
9781554883158

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