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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When I was a schoolboy I discovered that a house alone does not exist that it does not end at the outer limits of the ground floor but continues on to the streets the garden then to the house across the street. The house across the street itself continues into what is in front of it and so forth. To imagine one house is to imagine the whole world. Each individual imagines his own house. Thus each one imagines his own world. Each house that is imagined by its inhabitant is different; each world imagined by an individual is different A house and a world do not have to house and the world that is imagined by others. look like the At the same time houses and worlds imagined by others are real for each indi vidual. We live with the others our “neighbours” and their imagined houses and worlds also belong to our world our “environment.” We live in a world made up of unique individuals. Our world is formed by our “neighbours” a common reality. As a young architect I began to discover the way to create a house imagined by its inhabitant even if its form or its plan was different from the one imag ined by others. How could we adapt the form an inhabitant thinks of one day to another form he would prefer later another day? I thus began to search for a “technique.” The first idea of a technique came from the hypothesis of a non-geometrical “amoebic” form a completely irregular plan which had the capability of being modified. In the 1940s the idea of prefabrication with the use of “panels.” became popular. I thought of a “folding screen” a “chain of panels” linked together with hinges In 1945 when I was in exile in Bucharest I started to draw the plans of pos sible houses where the partitions would have been such folding screens and following the same logic also in the “houses across the street. (SP)