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Home: A Short History of an Idea

by Witold Rybczynski

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2017
  • First published 1986

architecture history

Rybczynski traces how ideas of comfort, privacy and domestic life developed in Western houses.   He shows how the home as people know it is fairly recent.