COMMON PLACE: THE ORDINARY EXPERIENCE OF HOUSING.
Series: DESIGN AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Publisher: ASHGATE
Published: 2005
Place of publication: ALDERSHOT
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 121
Description: "This book considers this ordinary experience of housing and how we come to depend upon it. The notion of the ordinary is used to argue against the conceits of policymaking and the fetish for domestic design. Using a variety of methods such as critical analysis and film criticism (looking at the work of film-makers as diverse as Bergman, Dreyer, Shyamalan, Tarkovsky, Tati and the Wachowski Brothers), it provides an original, impressionistic view of the role housing plays in our lives."--Jacket.