A House and its Atmosphere
Littlefield, D. 2020. A House and its Atmosphere. Home cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space. 17 (3), pp. 233-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2020.1954401
Littlefield, D. 2020. A House and its Atmosphere. Home cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space. 17 (3), pp. 233-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2020.1954401
Title | A House and its Atmosphere |
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Type | Book review |
Authors | Littlefield, D. |
Abstract | Book review of "A House and its Atmosphere" by Ben Jacks. David Littlefield considers this work and highlights key learning. This is not really a book about the construction of a house; rather, it’s about the idea of creating a home. Towards the end of the book, where he really begins to address the idea of atmosphere promised in the title. At the very end, having described the process of collecting driftwood to paint with his children, Jacks declares the house finished – the “house without history” [ could begin the process of being the repository for memories, as well as becoming the place from which further projects could be day-dreamed. Jacks’ book concerns house-as-process; design and construction are merely two phases within a much larger phenomenological field which encompasses what it really means, in that Heideggerian sense, to dwell somewhere. |
Keywords | House |
home | |
dwelling | |
design | |
construction | |
process | |
site | |
Journal | Home cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space |
Journal citation | 17 (3), pp. 233-237 |
ISSN | 1740-6315 |
1751-7427 | |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2020.1954401 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17406315.2020.1954401 |
Publication dates | |
Published online | 14 Oct 2021 |
Published in print | 2020 |