Beyond Live/Work: The Architecture of Home-Based Work

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-415-58548-4
Verlag: ROUTLEDGE

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holliss, Frances

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Wohngebäude

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Frances Holliss is a Reader in Architecture at London Metropolitan University and Director of the Workhome Project. Her research concerns the emerging field of design for home-based work.