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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Lurie, Alison.
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Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Architecture -- Aesthetics.
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The language of hous...
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The language of houses : how buildings speak to us / Alison Lurie ; illustrations by Karen Sung.
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Lurie, Alison.
New York : Delphinium Books, c2014.
Subjects
Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Architecture -- Aesthetics.
ISBN:
9781883285609 (hbk.)
1883285607 (hbk.)
Description:
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
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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.
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720.103 Lu
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