ISBN:
9781883285661
Language:
English
Pages:
308 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Edition:
First Delphinium paperback edition
DDC:
720.1
Keywords:
Architecture Psychological aspects
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Architecture and society
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Architecture Aesthetics
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Architecture Aesthetics
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Architecture and society
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Architecture Psychological aspects
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Architektur
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Wohnkultur
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Soziologie
Abstract:
Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects those spaces have on them
Note:
"Chapters 7, 9 and 10 of this book originally appeared in the New York Review of Books"--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302)
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What buildings say
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Architectural languages
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Materials and styles
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Outside the house
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Inside the house
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Inside the room
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Houses of God
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Houses of art and science
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Houses of learning I: Grade schools
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Houses of Learning II: High schools and colleges
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Houses of confinement : prisons, hospitals, asylums, nursing homes
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Houses of hospitality : hotels and restaurants
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Houses of commerce : stores and offices
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Personal space
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Afterword
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