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• Title:House and home : cultural contexts, ontological roles / Thomas Barrie.
  
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• Author/Creator:Barrie, Thomas, author.
  
• Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA7125 .B37 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture, Domestic--Themes, motives.
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• Description:xxviii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics, it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence, modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society, and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book, house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition, position it more meaningfully in the world, and assist in our collective homecoming.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781138947160 hardback alkaline paper
  1138947164 hardback alkaline paper
  9781138947184 paperback alkaline paper
  1138947180 paperback alkaline paper
  9781315670232 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Homelessness and homecoming: cultural contexts, ontological roles, and the task of architecture
  Homelessness
  cultural contexts of the house
  ontological function of home
  special roles of architecture
  2. home in the world: house and home in literature
  Homelessness and the search for home
  Modern estrangements
  Anxious homes
  Homeliness
  Special houses in English novels
  3. Origins: stories and theories about the first house
  Communal origins and home
  Individual origins and home
  formative dwelling in architectural theory
  spiritually imbued hermit scholar's retreat
  4. Sacred domesticities: houses for divinity, divinity of home
  Traditions and lineages
  Houses for god
  Domestic sacrality
  Home and cosmogram
  House and settlement as socio-political constructs
  5. House tombs: domestic abodes and memorials
  Death and architecture
  symbolic potency of funerary architecture
  Traditions of house tombs
  American Indian funerary architecture
  6. Materializing the immaterial: the house as a means of self-exploration and expression
  Writers' and philosophers' retreats
  Two houses
  - different perspectives
  Heidegger's Black Forest hut
  Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond
  7. Domestic ideologies: modernism, postmodernism, and the house
  Modernist polemics redefined
  valorization of the house in modernism
  Postmodern counterpositions
  8. Domestic cultures: the twentieth-century house and suburb
  Classical precedents
  English suburbs
  American counterparts
  Cultural priorities and expressions.