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The Language of houses : how buildings speak to us / Alison Lurie ; illustrations by Karen Sung.

LIBRA Rare NA2500 .L87 2014 Mathews copy
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA2500 .L87 2014
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Language:
English
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Penn Provenance:
  • Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
  • Chaix, Marie,1942 (inscription) Mathews copy)
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Harrison, New York : Delphinium Books, 2014.
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.
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.
Notes:
  • "Chapters 7, 9 and 10 of this book originally appeared in the New York Review of Books."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308)
Local Notes:
  • Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
  • Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
  • Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "To Marie & Harry with love. Alison"
  • Mathews Collection copy retains dustjacket.
ISBN:
9781883285609 ;
OCLC:
1290136046

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