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The Modern American House - Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity (Paperback) Loot Price: R975
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The Modern American House - Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity (Paperback): Sandy Isenstadt

The Modern American House - Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity (Paperback)

Sandy Isenstadt

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Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses visually. The desire for spaciousness reached its highest pitch where it was most lacking, in the small, single-family houses that came to be the cornerstone of middle class life in the nineteenth century. In direct conflict with actual dimensions, spaciousness was linked to a tension unique to the middle class - between spatial aspirations and financial limitations. Although rarely addressed in a sustained fashion by theorists and practitioners, and the inhabitants of houses themselves, Isenstadt argues that spaciousness was central to the development of modern American domestic architecture, with explicit strategies for perceiving space being pivotal to modern house design. Through professional endorsement, concern for visual space found its way into discussion of real estate and law.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2014
First published: June 2014
Authors: Sandy Isenstadt
Dimensions: 251 x 175 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-67506-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > Houses, apartments, flats, etc
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN: 1-107-67506-5
Barcode: 9781107675063

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