Author: Miles, Malcolm.
Title: The Uses of Decoration: Essays in the Architectural Everyday.
Description: Chichester John Wiley & Sons, 2000. 1st p/b ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, frontispiece, tiny dent fore-edge, minor edgewear. 256 pp. Malcolm Miles draws together material from several countries and areas of practice. Running through the book is a concern for the everyday, for the small and insignificant ways in which people occupy the built environment (their "representational spaces"). It raises awareness of this dimension and discusses sustainability. It concludes that the expertise of dwellers on dwelling is as important in shaping the futures of cities as designers on design. ISBN: 0471489638

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