5/24/2023 0 Comments At Home by Bill Bryson![]() ![]() In Renaissance villas and houses, the drawings rarely define rooms by their function. The most interesting section so far has been only a brief mention of an aspect of "house" design that I keep finding myself pondering over and is a subtext in a current project of mine. This kind of gentle deconstruction of the house, room by room, through history, is interesting even if it does, in its own form, reinforce the functionalist view of the house. and plumb the often odd history of the use of the room and its accompanying embellishments. The book's chapters are based on the rooms of a typical house - kitchen, dining room, etc. ![]() In this case, the territory to be navigated is the house as conceived and formulated in Western Civilization over the last few hundred years. I can't seem to stop buying books that give a thoughtful point of view on the cultural edifice that is a house that are not written by architects, their magazines and especially the architectural academy.īryson has written a number of books, most of whom I would classify as armchair travel lit. I can fully admit to being completely fascinated by opinions, history and thoughts on what we all take for granted as a "house" as expressed by non-architects. After waiting a number of weeks for a copy of At Home by Bill Bryson to make its way off the Holdshelf and into general circulation at the local library, I finally purchased a copy the other day. ![]()
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