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Beyond Live/Work. The Architecture of Home-based Work
Frances Holliss
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arquitectura
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Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in every country across the globe this dual-use building type has long gone unnoticed.
This book analyses the lives and premises of 90 contemporary UK and US home-based workers from across the social spectrum and in diverse occupations. It generates a series of typologies and design considerations for the workhome that will be useful for design professionals, students, policy-makers and home-based workers themselves.
In the context of a globalising economy, more women in work than ever before and enabling new technologies, the home-based workforce is growing rapidly. Demonstrating how this can be a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable working practice, this book presents the workhome as the house of the future. |
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| Introduction 1. A Tradition 2. Architecture 3. Everyday Realities 4. The City 5. Governance 6. Sustainability Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography. Charles Booth’s Home-based Occupations. Acknowledgements. Illustration Credits. Index |
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