House Fandango
Subtitle: Residential Architecture & Politics, Sociology, Urban Planning, Ecology, Geography, Indigenuity, Lifestyle.  About our own housing romance here with our Earth.
By: written, designed, illustrated by M J Latham
Publisher: CreateSpace, Amazon, BookPOD
Published: August 7, 2006
Place of publication: Hobart Tasmania Australia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781921019050
Copyright date: 1983-2017
Subjects: John Latham; General; House & Home; Do-It-Yourself
Other titles: Wow Hows the House Now
Description: This is about optimising your dwelling place.  It’s about anything that relates you to our housing - people's housing; a phenomenon. Practical explanation and inspiration are shown through true-life romance, adventure and frustration. Design-fertiliser, colour, quantities, art, acts, whys and wherefores. Dweller balancing acts. Misconceptions, problems and paranoia will be resolved towards understanding. We're looking at technicality, psychology, budgets, evolution, lifestyle and brave moves. Housefandango; us on the move, keeping the looming ego of science under the intuitive wings of our rhythm. A multiperson romance as we dance, leaving only bio-tracks, on our earthy floor. A heart focus here is the huge activity interface bonding nomad and settler with domestic contraption; the activity of housing and the returning action of houses. 

HouseFandango is for serious home-makers, poorly housed underdogs, the genius compromised by accommodation, lifestylers, ecologists, sociologists, students, practitioners, those floundering on a mortgage tether, perplexed about the time and money costs of their house and its location. It brings the spirit of Henry Thoreau together with building regulations and synthetics.  It contains a cousin to ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’. The beautiful spirit-of-house works of Witold Rybczynski (’Home’) and Alain de Botton (‘Architecture of Happiness’) offer no comparative breadth; a marketplace vortex is there to grasp HouseFandango. It is to the universal person but written to the popular West.

General public, digest, architecture, sociology, politics, ecology, environment and fun. A couching of the science of housing, connecting the academic, the lay, the builder, engineer, artist, dweller, nomads, settlers and the in-between. Bobby, Little White Cloud, Global Pale and Cheekybugger. Encampments, mud huts, Hollywood Boulevard, cottages and dwelling machines.
Table of contents: title: 1.  Here on the Front Porch; title: 2.  Excuse me Paleface what you mean you say House; title: 3.  Why is Earth such that we need a House Mummy; title: 4.  You Yours Here Now; title: 5.  Anyperson's House; title: 6.  Everypersons' World; title: 7.  Earth Locale People in Motion; title: 8.  Civilisation and House are Mutual; title: 9.  Rich Earthy Brick and Sheer Wall of Glass; title: 10. Corners Space Shapes; title: 11. Amenity Utility Surface Bits Response; title: 12. Making Building Designing; title: 13. Way to Go; title: 14. A Checklist for Housing; title: 15. Our Doing of Housing; title: 16. Skip the House Fandango