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“Home is an idea,” Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, “a
story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want
closest in our midst.” In The American Idea of Home, documentary
filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in
the field of architecture about a constellation of ideas relating
to housing and home. The interviewees include Pritzker Prize
winners Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi; Pulitzer
Prize winners Paul Goldberger and Tracy Kidder; American Institute
of Architects head Robert Ivy; and legendary architects such as
Denise Scott Brown, Charles Gwathmey, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert
A. M. Stern. The American idea of home and the many types of
housing that embody it launch lively, wide-ranging conversations
about some of the most vital and important issues in architecture
today. The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss
illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of
home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture;
activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and
regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames
the interviews with an extended introduction that highlights these
themes and helps readers appreciate the common concerns that
underlie projects as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd
Wright Usonian houses. Readers will come away from these
thought-provoking interviews with an enhanced awareness of the
“under the hood” kinds of design decisions that fundamentally
shape our ideas of home and the dwellings in which we live.
Stimulating, thought-provoking study shows how abstract methods of pure mathematics can be used to systematize problem-solving techniques in applied mathematics. Topics include methods for solving integral equations, finding Greens function for ordinary or partial differential equations, and for finding the spectral representation of ordinary differential operators. Problems. Appendices. Bibliography.
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