The House as Cultural Representation

To dwell does not only occur in housing, but in all relations with the world. The house is an answer to a need, but also gives a sense to the inhabitants world. Housing is an exponent of –cultural– essential values, and the inhabitant is not an individual apart from the community. Thus, in housing a...

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Autor principal: Juárez Pichardo, Miguel
Format: Online
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Publicat: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2016
Accés en línia:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56711
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Sumari:To dwell does not only occur in housing, but in all relations with the world. The house is an answer to a need, but also gives a sense to the inhabitants world. Housing is an exponent of –cultural– essential values, and the inhabitant is not an individual apart from the community. Thus, in housing a symbolic function can be perceived with a close-linked role to the collective identity and to the social processes which define it as a product of human labor.