Wentworth
Institute of Technology
The meaning of home /
"We are so familiar with the features of our homes - the rooms, fixtures and myriad little decorative details - that we have forgotten how to look at them. We might explore a church, read a book or watch a film, and attempt to decode its symbols and references, but we rarely look at our homes w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Frances Lincoln Ltd.,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Frances Lincoln ed. |
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| Summary: | "We are so familiar with the features of our homes - the rooms, fixtures and myriad little decorative details - that we have forgotten how to look at them. We might explore a church, read a book or watch a film, and attempt to decode its symbols and references, but we rarely look at our homes with the same critical eye. Yet from the most ordinary apartment to the most extravagant mansion, every home is a deep well of meaning. From windows to wardrobes, fireplaces to doorknockers, Edwin Heathcote attempts to fathom the elements of our everyday domestic lives. He explores how, over time, ancient ritual elements transmute into practical features, and how some of these, charged with latent symbolic meaning, have persisted in modern dwellings despite having lost their original uses. Home will never quite look the same again"--P. [4] of cover. |
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| Item Description: | "Edwin Heathcote ... is the architecture critic of the Financial Times, where versions of many of these essays first appeared in a column entitled The Symbolic Home"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Physical Description: | 192 pages ; 18 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780711233775 (hardcover) 0711233772 (hardcover) |