Tag: Dwelling

December 21, 2024

Dwelling with Architecture

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Free Download Roderick Kemsley, "Dwelling with Architecture"
English | ISBN: 0415569044 | 2012 | 248 pages | EPUB | 35 MB
The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

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September 12, 2024

Dwelling Cultural Representations of Inhabited Places

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Free Download Orsolya Katalin Petőcz, "Dwelling: Cultural Representations of Inhabited Places"
English | ISBN: 3031568397 | 2024 | 329 pages | EPUB, PDF | 17 MB + 8 MB
Dwelling is both an action and a location; it combines the spatial idea of habitation (dwelling in) with the temporal idea of lingering (dwelling on). We live not only in bricks and mortar, a tent, a hut or a spaceship, but also in that most changeful of forms, our body, or in a remembered or virtual home. Especially since COVID-19 we have seen changes in the topography of everyday life. In this multi-disciplinary collection, a complex of meanings is approached from a variety of specific, often personal angles.

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January 11, 2024

Households in Context Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

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Free Download Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt"
English | ISBN: 1501771302 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and domestic life to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households reveals the power of the everyday: the critical role of quotidian experiences, objects, and images in creating the worlds of the people who live with them.

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