Home a short history of an idea
An architect discusses the idea of comfort and the Western cultural attitudes that have shaped it since the end of the Middle Ages, reviewing such cultural variables as intimacy and privacy, domesticity, ease, and ideas about light, air, and efficiency as they have changed over time, and making a pl...
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Bibliographic Details
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Rybczynski, Witold
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| Resource Type: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York
Penguin Books
1987, ©1986.
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