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The American idea of home and the many types of housing that employ it launch lively, wide-ranging conversations about some of the most vital and important issues in architecture today. The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanin...

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1. Verfasser: Friedman, Bernard (Entrepreneur) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Regierungsdokument Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2017]
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Roger Fullington series in architecture.
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Zusammenfassung:The American idea of home and the many types of housing that employ it launch lively, wide-ranging conversations about some of the most vital and important issues in architecture today. The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture; activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames the interviews with an extended introduction that highlights these themes and helps readers appreciate the common concerns that underlie projects as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses. Readers will come away from these thought-provoking interviews with an enhanced awareness of the "under the hood" kinds of designs decisions that fundamentally shape our ideas of home and the dwellings in which we live. -- publisher
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9781477312889
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9781477312896
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