ARCHITECTURE, DWELLING AND THE GLOBAL MARKET.

The Architectural Review | July 1, 2001| | Copyright

In a world increasingly homogenized by forces beyond control of individuals, and even nations, it becomes more and more important to understand and continuously reinterpret the nature of placedness, dwelling and home.

The concept of home has always been central to architecture. Writing in the first half of the sixteenth century, one of the first modern writers on the subject Sebastiano Serlio harked back to Vitruvian notions of the origins of architecture 'Men's first coverings to protect themselves from the moisture of the rain and the blazing heat of the sun were ...

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