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

Author/EditorHolliss, Frances (Author)
ISBN: 9780415585491
Pub Date16/03/2015
BindingPaperback
Pages232
Dimensions (mm)234(h) * 165(w)
Traces the history of the work/home, analyses its contemporary form, and assess its social, architectural and urban potential.
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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.

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.

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.

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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