Felicity Cannell

Why We Build With Brick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, home ownership, materiality and sense of place.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781032159843
• ISBN-10: 1032159847
• Artikelnr.: 67514703

Autorenporträt

Felicity Cannell has a PhD in Geography from the University of Sheffield, UK. She has worked as a journalist and in higher education and is now predominantly a builder.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Building House as Home
2 A History of Bricks in the Building of the English Home
3 The Craft and the Graft
4 Owning Home: homeownership and the brick-built house
5 Material Meanings: the social life of brick in residential housing
6 A Sense of Place or a Sense of Space? How the brick maintains a
'traditional' vision of English suburban housing
7 Building with Brick: An Assemblage
Conclusion: final comments
Bibliography