1st Edition

Housing and Dwelling Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

Edited By Barbara Miller Lane Copyright 2007
480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art,... Read more

Part 1: Methods and Interpretations  1. Who Interprets? The Historian, the Architect, the Anthropologist, the Archaeologist, the Users?  2. What is Home?  3. Domestic Spaces as Perceptual, Commemorative, and Performative  Part 2: Themes in Modern Domestic Architecture  4. Living Downtown: Nineteenth Century Urban Dwelling  5. Victorian Domesticity: Ideal and Reality  6. Rural Memories and Desires: The Farm, the Suburb, the Wilderness Retreat  7. Modernism, Technology and Utopian Hopes for Mass Housing  8. Mass Housing as Single-Family Dwelling: The Post-War American Suburb  9. Participatory Planning and Design: Initiatives in Self-Help Housing, Renovation, and Interior Decoration  10. Twentieth Century Apartment Dwelling, Ideals and Realities  11. Some Possible Futures  12. Where is Home?

Biography

Barbara Miller Lane is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Professor Emeritus of History, and Mellon Emeritus Fellow at Bryn Mawr College. She founded the College’s Growth and Structure of Cities Program and served as its director from 1971-1989, and again in 1996-97. She has published numerous books and articles on architectural and urban history.