Geography of Home: Essays on architecture, psychology, and the history of house and home in America

by Akiko Busch

Overview

Geography of Home has been hailed as "an appealing, insightful collection of musings on the architecture, psychology, and history of house and home in America" (Kirkus). Now available in paperback, Geography of Home reminds us that the house is home to many things. Far more than four walls and a roof, it contains our private and public lives, our families, our memories and aspirations, and reflects our attitudes toward society, culture, the environment, and our neighbors.
In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, noted design essayist Akiko Busch reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this rich and delightful book uncovers the hidden meanings of the place we call home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568984292
Publisher:	Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 8.12(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Akiko Busch is a contributing editor at Metropolis.

Editorial Reviews

Akiko Busch doesn't so much look at houses as cock her head and listen to them. What she hears is the rustle of humanity within their all-too-mortal frames. House and Garden, June 1999

With her light touch, Busch—at once learned and unpretentious—takes you through a tour of homes and homemaking that is rich in history and sumptuously detailed. 'Dining Room' tells, among other things, of how table knives lost their pointed ends when Louis XIV decided that the table was no place for dueling. Henceforth all knife-ends were to be rounded and a great leap was made, if not for mankind, then for manners...No corner of the home or habit of the mind goes neglected here; reading this, you will look on your house—from its public face, the front door, to the inner sanctum of the well-appointed bathroom—with new eyes. Dana Goodyear, Pool & Spa Living, August 1999

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