Wow, How’s the House Now?! – by Monte John Latham
Product details
Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Debox Degrid Architecture Publications
ISBN: 1921019638
Trim size: 210 x 147 mm
Synopsis
This societal nexus nutshell, with humour and passion on serious rock, explains housing uniquely. It is for many; home-maker, sociologist, psychologist, economist, environmental practitioner, builder; whether mortgage perplexed or a simple enjoyer of digest.
It introduces the industry and diverse, colourful people around encampment, boulevard, cottage, rooms, breadcrumbs and modern dwelling: for humans in a modern world.
Houses are huge to world and home-maker. How do we manage it? How does it manage us?
With us each is the activity interface that bonds us with domestic contraption; the activity of housing and the returning action of houses. "House” is more than architecture.
Dweller in the driver’s seat; do your own special housing. Share in the perceptions of other experts, curriculum drafters and authorities commonly introspectively blinkered by their own streams of focus making decisions and blocking wholeness like naturopathy in western medicine or feng shui in western architecture. The book is offered at least to architecture and college students as a guard against the blinkering silo effect. The students need to be on fire of their own generational movement! And knowing the indigenous and the nomad have held us in hand eons ago while today they are surveyed into a corner.
Read it all easy down-home as by an architect off an organised cuff. Anecdotes, technical and poetic allusions, recalled from a well-read and design experienced mind. Crack the mystiques of design, bureaucracy and the built. Find the lay person in the heart of the professional and professional in the lay.