100 of the Worlds best houses

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100 of the Worlds best houses

Author(s)/Editor(s): Catherine Slessor | Size: 25.4 MB | Format: djvu | Quality: Scanner | Publisher: Images Publishing Dist A/C | Year: 2006 | pages: 346 | ISBN: 9781876907426,1876907428

The private house continues to occupy a unique position both in the history of  architecture and human cultural imagination. The house, the domus, the home is at once refuge and shelter. It is the place of communion for the family (and its many contemporary variations), for domestic activities, for living, working, eating and sleeping, and is both a very public and private domain. The distracting delights of cities and social interaction are manifest, but everyone dreams of having a home. Throughout the Western world, the private house's popularity has remained undiminished during the 20th century. But even so, the current ubiquity of the house in its traditional
form—a series of common rooms and separate bedrooms, expressing a domestic culture evolved over centuries—is rife with contradictions. As the American architectural critic Terence Riley has observed, the social conditions and structures that underpinned the development of the private house—privacy, the separation of living and work, the family and the nature of domesticity itself—have all changed drastically. Perhaps more so in the last 50 years than in the preceding four centuries, when the private house began to develop as a popular type. A new and notable generation of house designs— commissioned by forward-thinking clients—is addressing not only critical architectural issues but also the cultural parameters of the private dwelling.

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