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Architecture
Kay, Jane Holtz | February 15, 1986 issue

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This article presents information on the architecture book "House," by Tracy Kidder. The book bears no picture of a house on its cover--just the tools, tool box, saw, level, nails. And no architect either, nor builder or client. After all, an image might undercut its Everyman icon of the house. And icon it is: icon of the American dream, the single-family home stands on its solitary lot. Anonymous, unadulterated by any particular size or shape, it may lack that identifiable form called architecture, but it lives in the mind all the same.

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HOUSE (Book); KIDDER, Tracy; ARCHITECTURE; HOME; SIZE; SHAPES
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