The relationship between house form, environment and culture is a theme that has been explored by architects, archaeologists and anthropologists (Guidoni 1979; Rapoport 1969; Wilson 1988). An anthropological focus on the house derives from the way...

In the past the house has often figured in ethno graphies as an item of †material culture, as an object replete in symbolic meanings, or as the locus of the domestic domain and systems of *house-hold production. Various studies have revealed ways...

A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of. (Spanish) A house without a woman is like a body without a soul. (German) A house without a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel. (Portuguese) An abandoned house is half in ruins. (Spanish)...

The Oxford English Dictionary describes this as an exclamation that was once used on entering an inn to summon a waiter or the landlord. With that one may compare ‘Shop!’, still used by customers who enter a shop and find no-one behind the...

A house is a building typically lived in by one or more people. The word "house" may also refer to a building that shelters animals, especially in a zoo.[1] It generally has walls and a roof to shelter its enclosed space from precipitation, wind, heat,...

CONGRESS IS now trying to "reform" another major program for the poor. The House may vote as early as today on what sponsors describe as a bill to deregulate public and other subsidized housing by giving local authorities greater control over who gets in,...

Most major CAD systems now treat a building as a collection of 3D objects defined not only by their geometry, but also by other quantitative and qualitative attributes, by their "behavior" toward other objects, and by their varying display depending on view. Every...

Reed Krakoff, president of the fashion-accessories giant Coach, has found a buyer for his $14.995 million townhouse on East 61st Street, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The leather man dropped $17 million on an East 70th Street townhouse back in September,...

The House voted Thursday to overhaul the housing voucher program, the federal government's largest effort to help low-income families find affordable housing.The legislation, passed 333-83, seeks to make housing vouchers available to more families, makes it easier for people to use vouchers for first-time home...