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Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages
by Harris, Neil; Neil Harris
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- ISBN 10
- 0300070454
- ISBN 13
- 9780300070453
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New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1999. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): between 6" - 9" tall . Thomas Whitridge (Design). 198 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal wear aound edges. Synopsis: Conception and birth, growth and maturity, aging and death; these are important moments in the human life story. They are also stages in the existence of a building, says the author of this unconventional history of the rituals and practices that surround built structures in America. Drawing on sources as varied as Masonic manuals, promotional brochures, janitorial contracts, tourist guidebooks, and religious texts, cultural historian Neil Harris explores the rites of building passage over the past one hundred and fifty years. In this generously illustrated volume, he offers fascinating new insights into the social and cultural roles of buildings. This book suggests that architecture is a performing art as well as a fine art. Harris provides entertaining accounts of building introductions and presentations; celebrations to endow buildings with personality; debates over the naming of buildings; and attempts to document the erection and aging of buildings. Observing the difficulty that people experience in saying goodbye to old buildings that feel like friends, he calls for ceremony to mark the end as well as the beginning of a building's life.
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- Title
- Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages
- Author
- Harris, Neil; Neil Harris
- Illustrator
- Thomas Whitridge (Design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0300070454
- ISBN 13
- 9780300070453
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT & London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Art, Art History & Studies, Architecture, American History & Studies, Americana, American Buildings, Urban Art & Studies, Social Studies & Sciences, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
- Size
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): between 6" - 9" tall
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