Direct Verzonden A home in the world

A fascinating perspective on home design by revealing how different cultures have handled the essential task of building houses that reflect their ideals and values. In a time when home improvement is all the rage, this book sheds light on other, more global, meanings of the word “home”.A tour of home design considers how a range of cultures created houses that reflected their ideals, values, and landscapes, in a volume of vernacular and ethnographic domestic architecture that features a forest treehouse, a Thai boathouse, a Siberian hut, and more. 15,000 first printing.