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By Julienne Hanson

Homes should not simply assemblages of person rooms yet tricky styles of organised area, ruled by means of principles and conventions concerning the measurement and configuration of rooms, which household actions cross jointly, how the internal can be embellished and supplied and what forms of family item are applicable in every one atmosphere, how relatives relate to each other in numerous areas, and the way and the place visitors may be got and entertained in the house. interpreting houses and homes introduces new, computer-based suggestions designed to retrieve and interpret this wealth of social and symbolic details. some of the representations and measures exhibit how family area presents a shared framework for lifestyle, how social meanings are developed in the house and the way assorted sub-groups inside of society differentiate themselves via their styles of household house and existence.

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If this produces a certain redundancy in the description of research methodology, the gain is that each chapter may be read as a self-contained essay in configurational analysis. Chapters two and three, 'Tradition and change in the English house 7 and 'Ideas are in things 7 come closest to the concept of an 'archaeology of space7 in that they use samples of house plans to investigate key questions in the social history of two comparable farming traditions from England and France. The approach shares with more conventional archaeology the difficulty of having to draw on essentially inanimate resources and to 5o Decoding Homes and Houses breathe life into them by scrupulous analysis and interpretation.

1974), 273-5. 13 Hillier and Hanson, The Social Logic of Space, p. 180. 14 Peter Ucko, Ruth Tringham and G. W. ), Man, Settlement and Urbanism (London: Duckworth, 1972), pp. 23-5315 Hillier and Hanson, The Social Logic of Space, pp. 242-5. 16 Meyer Fortes, The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi (Oxford University Press, 1945) and The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi ( Oxford University Press, 1959). 17 Labelle Prussin, Architecture in Northern Ghana (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969), pp.

19 Axial and convex maps of the Ashanti palace more about the ways in which buildings modulate patterns of encounter and avoidance. The spatial property of integration may be computed just as readily for these axial and convex representations of space as it was for the justified graphs shown earlier. 20b convexly. The most integrated parts of the complex are picked out in black, and the degree of relative integration is represented by the density of tone from dark to light grey, with the palest grey indicating the most segregated areas of all.

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