The food axis
Subtitle: cooking, eating, and the architecture of American houses
By: Elizabeth Collins Cromley.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780813930077
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects -- United States; Domestic space -- United States; Architecture and society -- United States; Food habits -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The one-room house and the emergence of function-specific spaces, 1600-1750; title: Developments in space and technology, 1750-1850; title: National unity, regional diversity, 1850-1900; title: Efficient space, electric power, 1900-1940; title: Food spaces in the modern style, 1940-1975; title: All spaces are potential food spaces, 1975-2010.