Decoding Homes and Houses

Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household object are appropriate in each setting, how family members relate to one another in different spaces, and how and where guests should be received and entertained in the home. Decoding Homes and Houses introduces new, computer-based techniques designed to retrieve and interpret this wealth of social and symbolic information. The various representations and measures show how domestic space provides a shared framework for everyday life, how social meanings are constructed in the home and how different sub-groups within society differentiate themselves through their patterns of domestic space and lifestyles.-- Publisher description Decoding Homes and Houses uses a computer-based method of analysis to explore the relation between the design and layout of traditional, vernacular, speculative and architect-designed houses and people's evolving tastes, lifestyles, habits and domestic routines. Its purpose is to show how it is possible to explore the relation between house form and culture by looking at the social information that is crystallized in the layouts of the houses themselves (as opposed to asking people how they respond to them). Using computer-based techniques designed to retrieve and interpret social/symbolic information, this text examines how domestic space provides a framework for everyday life The publication of The Social Logic of Space in 19841 was the culmination of a decade of research into the lawfulness of space created for human social purposes. Julienne Hanson ; With Contributions By Bill Hillier, Hillaire Graham, And David Rosenberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

exploration Of The Relationship Between The Design Of Housing And Domestic Routine.