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The Language of Houses How Buildings Speak to Us

Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.

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  • "Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them."@en
  • "Propose une méditation sur la manière dont l'architecture parle des gens qui l'habitent et des effets qu'elle a sur eux."
  • "In 1981, Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized.Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and the spaces within them both reflect and affect the people who inhabit them. Schools, churches, government buildings, museums, prisons, hospitals, restaurants, and of course, hous."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "The Language of Houses How Buildings Speak to Us"
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  • "The language of houses : how buildings speak to us"
  • "The language of houses : how buildings speak to us"@en

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