UID:
almahu_9949568429202882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) :
,
illustrations (some color).
ISBN:
9781003256366
,
1003256368
,
9781000900736
,
1000900738
,
9781000900750
,
1000900754
Series Statement:
Home
Uniform Title:
Why (or do) we build with brick?
Content:
"This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, home ownership, materiality and sense of place. It investigates why, despite an increasing number of alternative materials, brick remains at the forefront of what people in the UK in particular expect homes to be built of and how brick is indelibly intwined with what home means - materially stable and financially secure, affording a located sense of place. Through observation of the building process and interviews with bricklayers, foremen, planners, developers and homebuyers in England, Felicity Cannell traces the embedded meanings of a mundane, ubiquitous artefact, and reveals the tensions and contradictions in today's use of brick to signify the traditional home. Although easing the planning process and leading to quick sales, the way brick is used in mass market housing today considerably restricts its capacities, notably decoration, flexibility and strength, the very qualities which have historically positioned this tremendously versatile material as the superlative building block. Overall the book adds complexity to the study of home and prompts debate about why we build the way we do"--
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Sheffield, 2019, under the title: Why (or do) we build with brick?
,
Building House as Home -- A History of Bricks in the building of the English Home -- The Craft and the Graft -- Owning Home: homeownership and the brick-built house -- Material meanings: the social life of brick in residential housing -- A sense of place or a sense of space? How the brick maintains a 'traditional' vision of English suburban housing -- Building with Brick: An Assemblage.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cannell, Felicity. Why we build with brick Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032159843
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003256366
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003256366
