Winifred Gallagher
Autor de Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Sobre El Autor
Winifred Gallagher is an author and she has also written for numerous magazines. She lives in Manhattan and Long Eddy, New York. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obras de Winifred Gallagher
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Manhattan, New York, USA
Long Eddy, New York, USA
Dubois, Wyoming, USA
Stone Harbor, New Jersey, USA - Educación
- University of Pennsylvania (B.A.)
- Ocupaciones
- Author
Journalist - Organizaciones
- The Atlantic Monthly
Rolling Stone
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Miembros
- 1,914
- Popularidad
- #13,443
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 51
- ISBNs
- 51
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 1
Gallagher's book is takes a look at how people use different rooms in their home. She explores the purpose of each room and gives examples of homes that are functionally good. The book is rather short on details and focuses mostly on the architectural level. This was somewhat disappointing since the introduction made the promising claim that sometimes all you need to do to make your home more behaviorally appropriate is rearrange the furniture; ideas of that sort could be extracted from the rest of the book, but were not obvious.
The most valuable aspect of the book was the behavioral look at the different rooms. For example, the chapter on the kitchen discussed how the kitchen has changed over time from a highly used but not respectable space to a functionally under utilized space that also acts as a social hub for the home. Also useful was the introduction of basic environmental psychology terms. One particularly useful pair of terms is "prospect" and "refuge". A home that feels comfortable has a balance of prospect (areas from which you can see and be seen) and refuge (areas which are more private). Places such as window nooks are delightful because they provide both prospect and refuge.
If nothing else, this book has inspired me with a new interest in environmental psychology. Now I just have to start applying house thinking to my own home.
(Note from 2013: This is the book the inspired my husband and me to build our own home, which we completed in 2012.)… (más)