Ideal Homes

Author : Tony Chapman,Jenny Hockey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134695843

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Ideal Homes? by Tony Chapman,Jenny Hockey Pdf

Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change. The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.

Author : Virginia Nicholson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958056

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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson Pdf

In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompasses rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. Step back in time to where our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled. This is their story.

Author : Ideal Homes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486136653

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Ideal Homes of the Thirties by Ideal Homes Pdf

Adapted from a rare 1933 catalog, this volume showcases sixty plans for two-story houses. It features photographs (most in full color), floor plans, and descriptive text that depict a splendid variety of economic styles, including colonial, mission, foursquare, and bungalow. Each house appears in a two-page spread, forming an elegant and highly readable presentation. The Plan Service Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, published a series of Ideal Homes catalogs in the 1920s and '30s. This particular issue has been long out of print, and its reissue offers professional architects and armchair renovators alike an authentic look at houses of the era. Daniel D. Reiff, an expert on vintage house design catalogs, provides an informative introduction.

Author : Julia McNair Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Asylums
ISBN : UOM:39015093176777

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Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ... by Julia McNair Wright Pdf

Author : Deborah Sugg Ryan
Publisher : Studies in Design and Material
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1526150670

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Ideal Homes by Deborah Sugg Ryan Pdf

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the history of your own house.

Author : Clare Melhuish,Pierre d'Avoine Architects,Pierre D'Avoine
Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064941860

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Housey Housey by Clare Melhuish,Pierre d'Avoine Architects,Pierre D'Avoine Pdf

Presents a collection of design concepts for contemporary homes which are not only forward-thinking, appealing, and responsive to modern needs, but also buildable, both on an individual basis and at a larger scale.

Author : Mark R. Watson,Robert B. Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9766400482

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Low-cost Housing in Barbados by Mark R. Watson,Robert B. Potter Pdf

The Barbados Tenantries Programme provides an example of what can take place when the state elects to intervene in low-income housing. This work offers an empirical study of the plantation tenantries since the upgrading programme began in the 1980s, examining different aspects of 150 tenantries.

Author : Deborah Sugg Ryan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781526126573

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Ideal homes, 1918–39 by Deborah Sugg Ryan Pdf

This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged through the architecture, design and decoration of the home, in choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked backwards to the past whilst looking forward to the future. Thus the inter-war ‘ideal’ home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today. It will appeal to academics and students in design, social and cultural history as well as a wider readership curious about interwar homes.

Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England)
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9789064505287

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Alison and Peter Smithson by Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England) Pdf

Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. As younger members of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) and as founding members of Team 10 they were at the heart of the debate on the future course of Modern Architecture. Their polemics and designs - addressing issues such as the rising consumer society and the orientation of urban planning - laid the foundations for New Brutalism and the Pop Art Movement of the 1960s. An important adaptation made by the Smithsons and their generation was the rejection of modernism's machine aesthetics. The new notions of place and territory were juxtaposed to Le Corbusier's machine à habiter. To the Smithsons a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location and able to meet the ordinary requirements of everyday life and to accommodate its inhabitants' individual patterns of use. This exhibition examines the evolution of the Smithsons' approach to this everyday "art of inhabitation." It does this by extensively documenting most of their designs for individual dwellings, especially their optimistic House of the Future of 1956 and the series of renovations of and additions to the fairy-tale-like Hexenhaus in Germany from the late 1980s onward

Author : Michael Maines,Daniel Kolbert,Emily Mottram,Christopher Briley
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1641551658

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Pretty Good House by Michael Maines,Daniel Kolbert,Emily Mottram,Christopher Briley Pdf

Pretty Good House provides a framework and set of guidelines for building or renovating a high-performance home that focus on its inhabitants and the environment--but keeps in mind that few people have pockets deep enough to achieve a "perfect" solution. The essential idea is for homeowners to work within their financial and practical constraints both to meet their own needs and do as much for the planet as possible. A Pretty Good House is: * A house that's as small as possible * Simple and durable, but also well designed * Insulated and air-sealed * Above all, it is affordable, healthy, responsible, and resilient.

Author : Garden City company of California, Los Angeles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : MINN:31951000408311S

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Ideal Homes in Garden Communities by Garden City company of California, Los Angeles Pdf

Author : Phoebe Goodell Judson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789127102

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A Pioneer’s Search for an Ideal Home by Phoebe Goodell Judson Pdf

Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. She was ninety-five when this book was first published in 1925. The years between were spent in “a pioneer’s search for an ideal home” and in living there, when it was finally found at the head of the Nooksack River, almost on the Canadian border. Phoebe Judson’s account of the journey west is based on daily diary entries detailing her fear, excitement, and exhaustion. At the end of the trail, the Judsons encountered hardships aplenty, causing them to abandon a farm and business in Olympia before their arrival in the Nooksack Valley. During the Indian Wars they holed up in a fort at Claquato. In time, Phoebe overcame her fear of the Indians, learned the Chinook language, and won their friendship. All this is told in vivid detail by a woman of great dignity and charm whom readers will long remember. Susan Armitage, professor of history at Washington State University, calls A Pioneer’s Search for an Ideal Home a “classic pioneering account,” important for its woman’s point of view.

Author : Helen C. Long
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719037298

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The Edwardian House by Helen C. Long Pdf

Illustrates how Edwardian houses were built, how they were used, and what they meant at the time.

Author : Barry Goodchild
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351930499

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Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods by Barry Goodchild Pdf

Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning. Likewise, planning raises arguably the most important long term issues in housing, given the environmental consequences of urban development and the use of the home. Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods documents the evolution of typical urban landscapes from 1900 to the present with an emphasis on contemporary issues and practice. In doing this, the book examines in detail: -

Author : Colin Davies
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861892438

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The Prefabricated Home by Colin Davies Pdf

An account of prefabricated architecture around the world, from McDonalds drive-through restaurants to Ikea's flat-pack house.