The ‘live/work’ story is well known and throughout the world millions of people experience it every day. However, until now, the workhome has not been analysed as a building type. For the first time, Frances Holliss traces the history of the workhome, analyses its contemporary form, and assess its social, architectural and urban potential. This book unearths the reasons this building type has not been studied or theorised before and explains the problems encountered by the ‘live/work’ movement. In the context of global economic and environmental crisis, and a developing information economy, this is presented as a building type with considerable relevance and potential. Beautifully illustrated with remarkable pictures of largely forgotten buildings, this book is essential reading for any professional or student architect interested in the future of building for work.
Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in every country across the globe this dual-use building type has long gone unnoticed. This book analyses the lives and premises of 90 contemporary UK and US home-based workers from across the social spectrum and in diverse occupations. It generates a series of typologies and design considerations for the workhome that will be useful for design professionals, students, policy-makers and home-based workers themselves. In the context of a globalising economy, more women in work than ever before and enabling new technologies, the home-based workforce is growing rapidly. Demonstrating how this can be a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable working practice, this book presents the workhome as the house of the future.
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