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''Home'' won the 1986 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. The book is an extended Essay on the evolution of Domestic Living ; rather than providing a technical treatise on architecture, Rybczynski recounts the history of the material and cultural influences (such as Intimacy and Privacy , Domesticity , ease) as well as and ideas about Light , Air , and efficiency, all of which have helped shape the thoroughly modern idea that we call '' Comfort ''. Throughout the work, Rybczynski prones emphasizing cultural ideals as a basis for creating comfortable homes. |
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