are often lined with garages in front of houses that are clearly
more internalized in design, some even taking on a fortress-like
appearance. Today's new homes are technically superior in
construction; i.e., they are more energy efficient, weather
resistant and maintenance free. However, they also seem to lack the
warmth and charm of prewar homes, for which more construction
dollars were spent on quality veneers, buUt-in features and other
human-scale details. The postwar need for massive amounts of
"affordable" housing for returning GIs helped to encourage buUding
practices that could reduce on-site labor and material costs in
houses. The accommodation of the automobile, cost-cutting movements
and a variety of other trends caused a gradual decline in the
human, social and emotional qualities of postwar residential
architecture. This book will attempt to look at the issues and
choices facing today's residential designers and home buUders and
ask: How can we make our new houses and neighborhoods more
responsive to humanistic needs, partlcularly in light of constant
pressures to keep housing costs down? This question will generally
be addressed by comparing historical designs to those of today, to
see if we might be able to reconsider some "old-fashioned" ideas in
new housing designs.
General
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2012 |
First published: |
February 2012 |
Authors: |
James Wentling
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
290 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4684-1420-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Reference & Interdisciplinary >
Interdisciplinary studies >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4684-1420-8 |
Barcode: |
9781468414202 |
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