ISBN:
9781554883158
,
1554883156
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 256 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Denhez, Marc C Canadian home
DDC:
392.3600971
Keywords:
Dwellings History
;
Canada
;
Habitations Histoire
;
Canada
;
Canada
;
Dwellings History
;
Dwellings
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
;
History
;
Livres numériques
;
Canada
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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