Decoding Homes and Houses

Julienne Hanson

ISBN 10: 0521572843 / ISBN 13: 9780521572842

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1998

About this Item

Black boards with silver lettering to the spine. Minor wear to the board edges. Pictorial unclipped dust jacket, showing signs of light shelf wear, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 324pp. Clean and bright pages with black and white illustrations throughout. (Any digital image available on request). Seller Inventory # 021465

Bibliographic Details

Title: Decoding Homes and Houses

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household object are appropriate in each setting, how family members relate to one another in different spaces, and how and where guests should be received and entertained in the home. Decoding Homes and Houses introduces new, computer-based techniques designed to retrieve and interpret this wealth of social and symbolic information. The various representations and measures show how domestic space provides a shared framework for everyday life, how social meanings are constructed in the home and how different sub-groups within society differentiate themselves through their patterns of domestic space and lifestyles.

Book Description:

Decoding Homes and Houses uses a computer-based method of analysis to explore the relation between the design and layout of traditional, vernacular, speculative and architect-designed houses and people's evolving tastes, lifestyles, habits and domestic routines.