Home: A Short History of an Idea
Item Number
NA7125.R9
Author/Artist/Editor
Witold Rybczynski
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
1987
Press/Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Description
An architect discusses the idea of comfort and the Western cultural attitudes that have shaped it since the end of the Middle Ages, reviewing such cultural variables as intimacy and privacy, domesticity, ease, and ideas about light, air, and efficiency as they have changed over time, and making a plea for the primacy of cultural ideals as a basis for creating psychologically comfortable homes.
Keywords
Home, Culture
ISSN/ISBN
0-14-010231-0
Availability
Available
OCLC
14966304