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008			200117b2019 ae||| b||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781943532391
020			_a1943532397
040			_apucpr _beng _cpucpr _dpucpr _erda
049			_aCARIBET
050			_aNA7205 _bT44 2019
082			_223 _a728.370222
100			_9297224 _aThenhaus, Clark
245			_aUnresolved legibility : _bin residential types. / _cClark Thenhaus ; edited by Ryan Roark. _htxt
250			_a1st ed.
264			_aSan Francisco : _bApplied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions , _c2019.
300			_a219 p. _bill. ;plans. ;photo. ; _c26 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediaded _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aInclude Bibliography
505			_aAn introduction to unresolved legibility in residential types -- Character & contradiction in cabin architecture -- Context-amending & context-offending in the mountain house -- Dramas of the Purlieu & Strange frontality in the farmhouse -- Odd façades & social transformation in the Queen Anne house -- Kit homes & the mathematics of the American foursquare -- Receding façades & traditional cosmetics in the ranch house -- Parenthetical & hyphenated symmetry in the federal-style house -- Points, partitions, rooms & enfilades (or not) in the shotgun house -- Party walls & other interiors in the row house -- Mixed-up stacks & cut corners in mixed-use -- Disciplinary whimsy & darlings.
520			_aArchitectural legibility requires both visual clarity of a buildings appearance such that its formal, spatial, and material compositions can be comprehended, as well as a certain clarity of its social, cultural, and political histories. While the term legibility carries a connotation of conclusiveness or objective qualifications, legibility in architecture is most often inconclusive and unresolved. Such unresolved legibility is particularly visible in houses, which are the source of inquiry in this project. This book proposes new understandings and interpretations of American residential architecture by investigating and graphically illustrating the forms, spaces, and histories of ten residential types. Perhaps no genre of architecture has been written about more than "the house." As long-standing subjects of architectural discourse, cultural reflection, and experimentation, houses represent a confluence of architectural and broader cultural phenomena. The house is not only susceptible to, but in fact requires renewal and re-imagination; as an architectural type it reflects shifting societal values and the constant reconstruction of meaning that this shifting entails. Such social, cultural, political, and contextual circumstances can best be evaluated under the rubric of legibility. While this might at first seem like an objective undertaking, legibility in architecture is indeterminate and unresolved, revealing the intertwining of architectural expressions with broader cultural circumstances.
650		0	_954087 _aArchitecture Domestic _xDesign and construction
650		0	_954087 _aArchitecture Domestic _xDesigns and plans
650		0	_9294835 _aarchitectural design
942			_2lcc _c6 _e1st ed. _hNA7205 _kGeneral _mT44 2019
999			_c291032 _d291032