There’s been so much written in the last few years about the external construction of shelters. This book is about the house as interior construct, the house of dreams, the “dream house” that we’re always building until the day we die, and the house of reverie which is the house we were born in, our first earthly home where “a lamp is always waiting in the window, and through it the house too is waiting” for each of us to come in, curl up, and dream. The external metaphor Bachelard uses for the house is the nest that the bird constructs with his own body, using his breast for a tool. He (the bird) suggests that a house is built by and for the body, that it takes form from the inside. “This being the case,” writes Bachelard, “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” The country ought to write that into their building code.
[Lewis MacAdams, Jr., Whole Earth Epilog p.512]

【コンテンツ】
Introduction
1. The House. From Cellar to Garret. The Significance of the Hut
2. House and Universe
3. Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes
4. Nests
5. Shells
6. Corners
7. Miniature
8. Intimate Immensity
9. The Dialectics of Outside and Inside
10. The Phenomenology of Roundness

出版年：1994年
言語：英語
ページ数：241ページ
サイズ：14cm×20.5cm×2cm

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