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Author : Charles Willard Moore,Gerald Allen,Donlyn Lyndon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520223578
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1974.
Author : Giles Laroche
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547238920
Features detailed, bas-relief collage spreads of dwellings in other world regions and historical times to explain how different people live and have lived, from a village house in South Africa to a floating green house in the Netherlands.
Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781497680302
How do the spaces we inhabit affect us—and reflect us? A Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores architecture, in this insightful, “breezy” read (The Washington Post). In 1981, Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and the spaces within them both reflect and affect the people who inhabit them. Schools, churches, government buildings, museums, prisons, hospitals, restaurants, and of course, houses and apartments—all of them speak to human experience in vital and varied ways. The Language of Houses discusses historical and regional styles and the use of materials such as stone and wood and concrete, as well as contemplating the roles of stairs and mirrors, windows and doors, tiny rooms and cathedral-like expanses, illustrating its conclusions with illuminating literary references and the comments of experts in the field. Accompanied by lighthearted original drawings, The Language of Houses is an essential and highly entertaining new contribution to the literature of modern architecture.
Author : Kate Kennedy,Hermione Lee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691193663
"A group of notable writers ... celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Margaret Culbertson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0890968632
"In addition to identifying design sources actually used in Texas, Culbertson provides personal background information on several of the original owners, many of whom were prosperous and respected members of their communities. By providing such contextual information about the houses and their owners, Culbertson shows that using designs published in magazines and catalogues was socially and culturally acceptable during this period." "The book closes with an in-depth look at the use of published designs in one particular community, Waxahachie, and the place of these houses within the community and in the lives of their original owners."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816549023
Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat Mora’s House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand.
Author : Hala Alyan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544912380
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage “Moving and beautifully written.” — Entertainment Weekly On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again. “[Alyan is] a master.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “Beautiful . . . An example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us.” — NPR “Gorgeous and sprawling . . . Heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely.” — Dallas Morning News “[Salt Houses] illustrate[s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter.” — New York Times Book Review
Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448192571
‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
Author : Phaidon Editors
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 071487809X
The world's most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century Throughout history, houses have presented architects the world over with infinite opportunities to experiment with new methods and materials for domestic living. Houses: Extraordinary Living celebrates the incredible diversity and beauty of the house as never before, from Modernist icons to feats of technological, material, and spatial innovation in the 21st century. Explore the creative imaginations of hundreds of internationally renowned architects past and present, as well as dozens of awe-inspiring houses by lesser-known and emerging talents.
Author : Charles Willard Moore,Donlyn Lyndon,Gerald Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:81439408
Author : Cathi House,Steven House,The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864702397
For more than twenty-five years House + House Architects have crafted intimate, personal architecture. Cathi and Steven House's extensive travels throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, with focused studies in the Mediterranean and Mexico, have molded
Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528
“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : Black Swan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1784160490
'Excellent . . . Fresh, learned, readable and full of life' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday Houses of Poweris the result of Simon Thurley's thirty years of research, picking through architectural digs, and examining financial accounts, original plans and drawings to reconstruct the great Tudor houses and understand how these monarchs shaped their lives. ________ What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were and what went on inside their walls? Who slept where and with who? Who chose the furnishings? And what were their passions? ________ The Tudors ruled through the day, throughout the night, in the bath, in bed and in the saddle. Their palaces were genuine power houses - the nerve-centre of military operations, the boardroom for all executive decisions and the core of international politics. Far more than simply an architectural history - a study of private life as well as politics, diplomacy and court - it gives an entirely new and remarkable insight into the Tudor world.
Author : Herbert C. Chivers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486138633
A remarkable presentation of the "finished ideas of a practicing architect of high rank in his profession," this early-twentieth-century showcase of homes features a wide range of designs from a Midwest master. Reproduced from a rare edition, the work features a splendid array of dwellings, from cottages and bungalows to sprawling mansions. Each house is meticulously illustrated and accompanied by complete floor plans. "A poorly planned house is usually more expensive than a modern practical plan," according to the author, architect Herbert C. Chivers. Combining "modern methods" with attractive but modestly priced plans, Chivers promoted his business with sketches of stylish homes, accompanied by brief captions stating dimensions, prices, and occasional suggestions for modifications. This reprint of his complete guide to domestic architecture of the early 1900s constitutes a valuable resource for home hobbyists, architecture students and professionals, as well as antique collectors.
Author : Kevin L. Donihe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1933929707
There once was an odd reclusive little man who was in love with his house. He loved this house not in the way that normal people love their homes. His was a more intimate love, like the love between two humans. He loved his house so much that he asked it to marry him, and he believed that his house happily relied with a yes. Unfortunately, their love was to be torn apart the day before their wedding, on the day of the great house holocaust. It was as if they killed themselves, and took many of the occupants with them. Distraught and despairing over the death of his fiancée, this man must go on a quest to find out what happened to his beloved home--Publisher's description.