On discomfort : moments in a modern history of architectural culture /: moments in a modern history of architectural culture. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Ellison and Andrew Leach.
• Editors: Ellison, David Alex, 1964-; Leach, Andrew, 1976-
• Contents: 1. Thinking through discomfort / David Ellison and Andrew Leach -- 2. 'Good God, Mrs. Nicholson!' : slaves and domestic disquiet in eighteenth-century Scotland / Dolly MacKinnon -- 3. Thoreau's economy / Andrew Ballantyne -- 4. Wandering sensations : supernatural discomforts and modern domesticity / David Ellison -- 5. Climatic discomforts : [sub]tropical climates, racial character and the nineteenth-century Queensland house / Deborah van der Plaat -- 6. Technological progress as an obstuction to domestic comfort : Hugo Van Kuyck and the introduction of the American in post-war Belgium / Fredie Floré -- 7. Everything but the orgy truck : shopping for radical architecture at MoMA, 1972 / Alexandra Brown -- 8. It's not me, it's you / Andrew Leach -- 9. The Wolfers house by Henry van de Velde, as occupied by Herman Daled / Bart Verschaffel -- 10. Blind windows : a particularly domestic discomfort / Chris L. Smith -- 11. Reality without restraint : bathtime in the Villa dall'Ava / Christophe Van Gerrewey.
• Publisher Details: London [England] New York, New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (151 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 720.1/03; Architecture -- Human factors; Human comfort; Architecture -- Human factors; Human comfort; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472455338; 1472455339; 9781317085867; 1317085868; 9781315598826; 1315598825
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.