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The new edition of Stephen Gardiner's highly readable history of the house comes at a time of crisis in domestic architecture. The author clearly shows how the collapse of traditional values since the Second World War has been mirrored by the new architectural emphasis on materialism, bringing a disregard for the lessons of the past, and a loss of contact, both with human requirements and with nature as a source of inspiration. He offers an enlightening overview of the development of house and home, since the caves of early man, and the rich profusion of indigenous styles that has since emerged, from huts of mud and reeds, Ziggurats, Chinese underground villages with sunken courtyards, multistoreyed tenements in Ancient Rome, Japanese designs that blend with nature, through the Palladian, Arts and Crafts and, more recently, the rediscovery of a more human scale, and the importance of the frame, in particular in the designs of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. After the later twentieth century's violent swings from tower blocks to Post-Modernism and neo-traditionalism we face a new danger, the creeping sprawl that is swallowing up much of our beautiful countryside. Recognising this threat, the author highlights a strand of hope, a vein of architectural excellence that runs through the chaotic post-war picture and points the way ahead.
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This book offers and enlightened overview of the development of house and home, from its beginnings in the caves of early man through the variety of structures that have since evolved.
About the Author
Stephen Gardiner is an architect and writer who has been architectural critic for the London Magazine, the Spectator, and the Observer. His previous books include Le Corbusier and Kuwait: the Making of a City.
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- PublisherConstable
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1841192449
- ISBN 13 9781841192444
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages371
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