20110920

"first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us"

Architecture and Order; Approaches to Social Order.
Ch: Ordering the World: Perceptions of Architecture, Space and Time.
Michael Parker Pearson & Colin Richards.

P. 8 - routine.
P. 2 - 3 - Winston Churchill - "first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us."

Francis Bacon "Houses are built to live in and not to look on".

Requested Amos Rapport's House Form and Culture.

Books that arrived today in the post:

Purity & Danger - Mary Douglas
Design Your Life - Ellen & Julia Lupton
in praise of shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki
Bathroom Unplugged - Hebel & Stollmann (again)
Architecture - The Subject is Matter - Jonathan Hill
Occupying Architecture: Between the architect and the user - Jonathan Hill