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Why We Build With Brick (Hardcover)
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Why We Build With Brick (Hardcover)
Series: Home
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This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore
themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of
place. It investigates why, despite an increasing number of
alternative materials, brick remains at the forefront of what
people, in the UK in particular, expect homes to be built of, and
how brick is indelibly entwined with what home means – something
materially stable and financially secure, affording a located sense
of place. Through observation of the building process and
interviews with bricklayers, foremen, planners, developers, and
homebuyers in England, Felicity Cannell traces the embedded
meanings of a mundane, ubiquitous artefact, and reveals the
tensions and contradictions in today’s use of brick to signify
the traditional home. Although easing the planning process and
leading to quick sales, the way brick is used in mass market
housing today considerably restricts its capacities, notably
decoration, flexibility, and strength: the very qualities which
have historically positioned this tremendously versatile material
as the superlative building block. Overall, the book adds
complexity to the study of home and prompts debate about why we
build the way we do.
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