The Kitchen
Life World, Usage, Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 2005
160 pages
978-3-7643-7723-6 (ISBN)
Description
The kitchen is regaining its role as the central living space in home life. Since the 1990s the kitchen has moved into the fashion and design spotlight, and this publication now examines and reviews its significance in an architectural, cultural, social and economical context. The authors and contributors look at important developments and revolutionary kitchen concepts of the last decades including standardised kitchens and open kitchenliving spaces; they also review design basics, current trends, the changing demands posed by patch-work families or single person households. Even culinary aspects are included. This is a book which should certainly have its place in every 21st century kitchen. Our new book series "Living concepts" presents clearly and concisely selected topics relating to aspects of the home. It is aimed at general readers as well as specialists, and edited by the ETH Wohnforum Zurich.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
59 farbige Abbildungen, 164 s/w Abbildungen
164 b/w and 59 col. ill.
File size
121,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-7723-6 (9783764377236)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Book
12/2005
1st Edition
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
€34.95
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Content
The Kitchen: Terra Incognita.- We Should Be Happy That Kitchens Are Still Getting Built At All.- On the Kitchen and Vulgar Odors.- Refrigerators, Kitchen Islands, and Other Cult Objects.- The Kitchen Today. And a Little Bit Yesterday. and Tomorrow, Too, Of Course..- Between Progress and Idling: The Standard Kitchen.- From Restrictive Norms to Greater Freedom.- Ghostly Silence.- To Table! To Table?.
