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The language of houses : how buildings speak to us
- Title
- The language of houses : how buildings speak to us / Alison Lurie ; illustrations by Karen Sung.
- Author
- Lurie, Alison.
- Publication
- Harrison, New York : Delphinium Books, [2014]
- ©2014
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Sung, Karen.
- Description
- 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Chapters 7, 9 and 10 of this book originally appeared in the New York Review of Books."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- What buildings say -- Architectural languages -- Materials and styles -- Outside the house -- Inside the house -- Inside the room -- Houses of God -- Houses of art and science -- Houses of learning I: grade schools -- Houses of learning II: high schools and colleges -- Houses of confinement: prisons, hospitals, asylums, nursing homes -- Houses of hospitality: hotels and restaurants -- Houses of commerce: stores and offices -- Personal space.
- ISBN
- 9781883285609 :
- 1883285607
- OCLC
- 869267286
- SCSB-5823317
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries