Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design & Domestic Space: Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2006

Buchli, Victor; Clarke, Alison; Upton, Dell (eds.)

ISBN 10: 1845205014 / ISBN 13: 9781845205010

Published by Berg Publishers Limited, Oxford, U.K., 2006

About this Item

Softcover. Marginal wear to spine ends and leading corners. Binding is sound; pages are tight and clean; text and illustrations are clear. AF.

Seller Inventory # 295454

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design & Domestic Space: Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2006
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Limited, Oxford, U.K.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845205014
• ISBN 13: 9781845205010
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Journals

About this title

Synopsis

More than ever before, the home features in books, magazines, Sunday newspapers and on television. Whether as a concept or a physical place, it represents a key site of personal development. In line with this there has recently been a move towards the domestic as the new 'avant-garde' in contemporary art and design practice. In stark contrast, however, the maintenance of home remains a daily struggle in many parts of the globe. But wherever we are, one thing is clear: 'home' is profoundly symbolic. The domestic sphere is a highly fluid and contested site of human existence that reflects and reifies identity and values. Regrettably, much of the dialogue around the home has taken place as separate conversations within disparate disciplines. This new interdisciplinary journal is the first forum wholly dedicated to the critical understanding of the domestic sphere across timeframes and cultures. Heavily illustrated and handsomely designed, it will address a range of topics, including but not limited to: the relationship between body and building; consumption, material culture and the meaning of home; design and new technologies; aesthetics and furnishing; homelessness; politics, domesticity and social change; moving cultures; the social consequences of planning and architecture. "Home Cultures" invites submissions from design practice, design history, architecture, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, urban planning, contemporary art, geography, psychology, folklore, cultural studies, literary studies and art history.

About the Author

Victor Buchli is Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University College London. Alison Clarke is at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Dell Upton is at the University of Virginia.