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Thirteen ways of looking at a house

Title

Thirteen ways of looking at a house / David Leven and Stella Betts, LEVENBETTS ; with Thomas de Monchaux.

Author

Leven, David, 1964-

Publication

Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2021.
©2021

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Description

326 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), plans; 26 cm

Summary

"For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately stages ritual and routine, this most private of programs has become a medium of publicity and polemic. '13 Ways of Looking at a House' both participates in and critiques this contemporary tradition. The reader's attention in this examination is directed not only to LEVENBETTS' houses, but to all houses, and all parts of houses - pieces of home and rhetorics of domesticity that show up in our collective memory: from a stolen moment on a staircase in a John Cassavetes film, to the sturdy knife-edged contractor modernism of suburban late to mid-20th century America. '13 Ways of Looking at a House' is an accessible and universal book - everyone has a sense of home. The book includes 13 texts on domestic pieces that make up the house, comparative diagrams, construction metrics and anecdotes, informal photos, and structural details all in the interest of taking the house apart in order to put it back together"--

Alternative Title

13 ways of looking at a house

Subject

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

Title and statement of responsibility from front cover.
Pagination does not count endpapers, which have colophon, table of contents, and other text.

Contents

(from table of contents) Case studies in a sense of place / by Thomas de Monchaux -- Thirteen house comparisons -- (Thirteen house topics). Open house -- Campsite -- Doors and windows -- Steps and stairs -- Corridors -- Courtyards -- Curtains -- Plumbing -- House plants -- Plans -- Structures -- Thick and thin -- Home -- (Thirteen houses by Levenbetts). A house of one shape -- A square house -- House without walls -- A house in a grid -- A house of lines -- A house and a house -- A house with three yards -- A snail house -- A house-shaped house -- A house in five shapes -- A garden in a house -- A house for the next site -- A house with a swerve -- Thick and thin -- Thirteen ways / by Thomas de Monchaux.

Call Number

JQF 22-1033

ISBN

9781954081321
1954081324

LCCN

2021913581

OCLC

1250382578

Author

Leven, David, 1964- author, architect.

Title

Thirteen ways of looking at a house / David Leven and Stella Betts, LEVENBETTS ; with Thomas de Monchaux.

Publisher

Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2021.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Betts, Stella, 1966- author, architect.

De Monchaux, Thomas, writer of supplementary textual content.

Leven Betts (Firm), author, architect.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1033

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