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The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us

Hardcover • 2014 • English

The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us

By Alison Lurie

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About the book

In 1981 Alison Lurie published "The Language of Clothes," a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, "The Language of Houses," a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and the spaces within them both reflect and affect the people who inhabit them...Show more

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ISBN

9781883285609

Publisher

Delphinium Books

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us

Format

Hardcover

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