About this title: The new edition of Stephen Gardiner's highly readable history of the house comes at a time of crisis in domestic architecture. The author clearly shows how the collapse of traditional values since the Second World War has been mirrored by the new architectural emphasis on materialism, bringing a disregard for the lessons of the past, and a loss of contact, both with human requirements and with nature as a source of inspiration. He offers an enlightening overview of the development of house and home, since the caves of early man, and the rich profusion of indigenous styles that has since ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Constable and Robinson,, London, United Kingdom:
Date Published: 2002.
ISBN-13:9781841192444ISBN:1841192449
Description: As new condition. A challenging new edition of this 1974 book. An overview of the development of the house and home from the cave man to the present day. With over 40 black & white illustrations. In with its dustwrapper. (371 pages). read more
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