216 Pages
23 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
23 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
23 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It investigates why, despite an increasing number of alternative materials, brick remains at the forefront of what people, in the UK in particular, expect homes to be built of, and how brick is indelibly entwined with what home means –... Read more
Introduction
1 Building House as Home
2 A History of Bricks in the Building of the English Home
3 The Craft and the Graft
4 Owning Home: homeownership and the brick-built house
5 Material Meanings: the social life of brick in residential housing
6 A Sense of Place or a Sense of Space? How the brick maintains a ‘traditional’ vision of English suburban housing
7 Building with Brick: An Assemblage
Conclusion: final comments
Bibliography
Biography
Felicity Cannell has a PhD in Geography from the University of Sheffield, UK. She has worked as a journalist and in higher education and is now predominantly a builder.
