The Good Life
A guided visit to the houses of modernity
Inaki Abalos

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Author(s)

Inaki Abalos

Publisher, year

Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2001

Scope

208 p., illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

8425218306

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The houses of Heidegger, Picasso, Tati, Eames etc. This text is an essay on the relationship between ways of thinking, and the forms of the house, of planning and living in it. It is based on seven guided visits to a group of real or imaginary houses. The reader won't find any of the masterworks built by modern architects but mostly imaginary houses. In short, this book invites the reader on a fantasy tour, one whose aim is not just to celebrate the diversity of the 20th-century house but also to stimulate the pleasure of thinking, planning and living intensely, to promote the appearance of a house that does not yet exist.

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Location

Cultural approach to (urban) space

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References