An edition of House Fandango (2006)

House Fandango

Residential Architecture & Politics, Sociology, Urban Planning, Ecology, Geography, Indigenuity, Lifestyle. About our own housing romance here with our Earth.

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February 28, 2020 | History
An edition of House Fandango (2006)

House Fandango

Residential Architecture & Politics, Sociology, Urban Planning, Ecology, Geography, Indigenuity, Lifestyle. About our own housing romance here with our Earth.

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This is about optimising your dwelling place. It’s about anything that relates you to our housing - people's housing; a phenomenon. Practical explanation and inspiration are shown through true-life romance, adventure and frustration. Design-fertiliser, colour, quantities, art, acts, whys and wherefores. Dweller balancing acts. Misconceptions, problems and paranoia will be resolved towards understanding. We're looking at technicality, psychology, budgets, evolution, lifestyle and brave moves. Housefandango; us on the move, keeping the looming ego of science under the intuitive wings of our rhythm. A multiperson romance as we dance, leaving only bio-tracks, on our earthy floor. A heart focus here is the huge activity interface bonding nomad and settler with domestic contraption; the activity of housing and the returning action of houses.

HouseFandango is for serious home-makers, poorly housed underdogs, the genius compromised by accommodation, lifestylers, ecologists, sociologists, students, practitioners, those floundering on a mortgage tether, perplexed about the time and money costs of their house and its location. It brings the spirit of Henry Thoreau together with building regulations and synthetics. It contains a cousin to ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’. The beautiful spirit-of-house works of Witold Rybczynski (’Home’) and Alain de Botton (‘Architecture of Happiness’) offer no comparative breadth; a marketplace vortex is there to grasp HouseFandango. It is to the universal person but written to the popular West.

General public, digest, architecture, sociology, politics, ecology, environment and fun. A couching of the science of housing, connecting the academic, the lay, the builder, engineer, artist, dweller, nomads, settlers and the in-between. Bobby, Little White Cloud, Global Pale and Cheekybugger. Encampments, mud huts, Hollywood Boulevard, cottages and dwelling machines.

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Language
English
Pages
348

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Table of Contents

1. Here on the Front Porch
2. Excuse me Paleface what you mean you say House
3. Why is Earth such that we need a House Mummy
4. You Yours Here Now
5. Anyperson's House
6. Everypersons' World
7. Earth Locale People in Motion
8. Civilisation and House are Mutual
9. Rich Earthy Brick and Sheer Wall of Glass
10. Corners Space Shapes
11. Amenity Utility Surface Bits Response
12. Making Building Designing
13. Way to Go
14. A Checklist for Housing
15. Our Doing of Housing
16. Skip the House Fandango

Edition Notes

Published in
Hobart Tasmania Australia
Other Titles
Wow Hows the House Now
Copyright Date
1983-2017

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
348
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL12295975M
ISBN 10
1921019050
ISBN 13
9781921019050
OCLC/WorldCat
225398578
National Library of Australia
ISBN 978-0-646-57126-3
Amazon ID (ASIN)
ISBN 978-0-646-57126-3
Goodreads
2511392

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Work Description

NO HOUSE IS MERELY AN ISLAND ROMANCE.
Housing in a nutshell, with humour & passion on the solid rock of vital needs.
A SINGLE CHALLENGE FOR BUILDER, HOMEMAKER, PLANNER, ACADEMIC, POLITICIAN.
How do we manage it all: how does IT manage us?
PERSON & HOUSE ARE BONDED
by the activity of housing & the returning action of houses;
ACCOUNTING FOR HUGE QUANTITIES OF OUR DOINGS & WORLD CONDITIONS.

Is housing as about us at breakfast not a heartthrob in this?!! Are we not in global crisis!??

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