00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861787746 Buklod 20101004161428.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 171212t19871986nyua rb |||1 u|eng d 0140102310 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00007726467 DLC BAG rda eng NA 7125 R93 Rybczynski, Witold author. Home a short history of an idea Witold Rybczynski. New York, New York Penguin Books 1987, ©1986. x, 256 pages illustrations 21 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index. 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 plea for the primacy of cultural ideals as a basis for creating psychologically comfortable homes. Dwellings Psychological aspects. Personal space Psychological aspects. Architecture and society. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN NA 7125 R93 Book