Edwina Attlee

Strayed Homes (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Poetic and political, Strayed Homes invites architects, interior designers, and urbanists to think again about common concepts in architecture - 'private', 'public' and 'home'. Whereas most writing about the public/private focusses on urban space, this book focusses on the domestic - exploring those overlooked, everyday places where private and intimate activities take place in public. With four chapters set in four small, liminal spaces: the launderette, the greasy spoon, the fire escape, and the sleeper train - the book is part architectural history, part cultural history. It follows a series of allusions and impressions, to explore how films, adverts, books and anecdotes shape experiences of everyday architecture. Making a case for the poetic interpretation of space, the book can be used as a sourcebook for architects, designers, and theorists alike - prompting the reader to rethink the emotional state of leaving home, intimacy in public, and lonely dreaming.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350213876
• Artikelnr.: 62903347

Autorenporträt

Edwina Attlee is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Sir John Cass
Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of
Architecture, UCL, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. INTRODUCTION Rocks, Dreams and
Extensions 1. Secular Eruvin 2. Question your teaspoons a. Reading: Roland
Barthes b. The Everyday: Michel de Certeau c. Space: Gaston Bachelard 2.
LAUNDERETTE 1. Gossip shops for lazy people 2. What was the state of
Britain's laundry in 1949? a. The public washhouse b. The commercial
laundry 3. The arrival of the launderette 4. Play 5. Wait 3. COUCHETTE 1.
Double negative: a. Location b. Consciousness 2. Cut up and carve 3. Hide
and seek 4. Missing and Crossing 5. Strayed homes 4. FIRE ESCAPE 1. The
long and heavy ladder 2. Trapdoor 3. Unmarried women 4. Theatre box 5. Left
space 5. GREASY SPOON 1. The milk comes and the post goes 2. Home-cooking
3. Stay 4. Cramped 5. For the price of a cup of tea 5. STRAYED HOMES:
Politics, Practices, Emotions Bibliography Index