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  <title><![CDATA[Home: A Short History of an Idea]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Witold Rybczynski]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a fan of Rybczynski's architecture writing in <em>Slate</em>, so I figured I'd check this out. A history of the home as it has been defined over the centuries, this book not only builds a cohesive arc from the middle ages to the 1980s, it is brimming with all sorts of historical facts and antidotes that,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49052918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Witold Rybczynski’s HOME: A SHORT HISTORY OF AN IDEA traces the development of the idea of “home” from the medieval period to the present.<br/><br/>In the middle ages, the interiors of homes were primarily public and ceremonial spaces, but that concept eventually changes as notions of privac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60557005">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 11 16:51:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[May be of interest to househunters trying to envision what their happy home to be might want to be.  It’s basically a selective history of the concepts of home and comfort, related to changing forms of the family, over the last four or five hundred years.  It’s full of interesting factoids, prob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15187744">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 12 15:54:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is amazing and makes my Top 10 desert island reading list.  It's the most entertaining, readable, and comprehensive look at domestic architecture in the U.S.  The fact that he even includes Ralph Lauren's lifestyle marketing in the discussion simply sealed the deal.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 10 18:23:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book as been on my desk for over 3 years, and I opened it midweek to see what I thought.  So far I am fascinated by it -- and really enjoying the social history aspect of it.  More to follow.<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>And so I finished it, some time ago but forgot to update here.  I admit, I fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34544155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me a while to read...only a few of us are crazy enough to read a book that essentially amounts  to the history of the chair :-) Interesting read, just slow. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting study of how the idea of (the Western) home has evolved over time.  It is largely focused on Europe and the United States.  I especially appreciated the part about Catherine Beecher and her contemporaries, applying management principles to the design and function of the home -- they p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5673728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38449828">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the book I was expecting, but an easily readable history of the architecture and furniture of homes and houses.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this to be a fun book to read.  It is a short history of how the idea of a home and comfort came to be. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew there's a history of the kind of place we call home.  Loved it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Will never look at my Kandinsky chairs the same way again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The material and range in this book was pretty fascinating - not too dry - and written with a bit of humor.  Highlights include the historical background and anatomical influences of chair design, and the details surrounding the creation of stoops (to give distance between one's home and the canals ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11112932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a book Jamie had to read for architecture school and he recommended to me.  Every person should read this book.  It is a statement on the way we live and use space.  It is not so specific that someone who is not an architect can't understand or appreciate it.  Give it a try.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the best book I've read this year.  History of comfort and living spaces through the past 400 years.  Covers everything from changes senses of privacy to lighting and ventilation to women's shifting role in domesticity.  Thoughtful and well-written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily accessible for all (not just students of interiod design &amp; architecture) this was a fascinating read about why our homes are the way they are, and how the concept of comfort in our interiors (specifically our homes) is relatively new. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a study of the evolution of the concept of the home as it moved through Dutch and British cultures into modern American society. Reading this book was the first step towards my decision to enter urban planning.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really interesting read because it goes through the history of the Western household starting in the Medieval period, and explains how we in the Western world came to our idea of &quot;home&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shannon introduced me to this one-- and it's incredible interesting: a history of the modern idea of comfort.  I read it during the semester-- a rare occurence!]]></body>
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