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A Short History of an Idea

Examines the European-American evolution of the cultural concepts of privacy, comfort, and the intersection of form and function. I'd group this book as informative to ecopsychology, although the author, writing in the mid-1980s, didn't use the term. The author admits that comfort "is an invention--a......more

This book examines how the ideas of "home" and "comfort" and "domesticity" came into being and changed over the years and the relation of these ideas to technology in the home. For the most part, the book covers the period from the middle ages to the present. It is the author's claim that during thi......more

Interesante libro sobre un tema poco tratado y, sin embargo, tan cotidiano. Fue escrito hace bastantes años, por lo que se queda un poco obsoleto en algunos aspectos y he echado de menos algunas ilustraciones más para comprender mejor conceptos arquitectónicos y de diseño que se me escapan. Pero dir......more

An entertaining rundown of the development of the home from the Middle Ages to the mid-1980s, when this book was written. Not that much, other than technology, has actually changed since the mid-1980s. Mostly, this deals with the Western world. (Europe and North America) This is not just about how th......more

My dad recommended this book to me. It was written a while ago, but it's a fascinating look at how the concept of "home" emerged throughout architectural history. It has a Eurocentric bias, but it's a really astounding amount of information and it's written extremely well. Rybcyznski makes you reall......more