Why we build with brick /
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 United Kingdom in particular ex...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- 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.