Why We Build With Brick (Home)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
	The Brick in Place
	Constructing the Story
	Notes
Chapter 1: Building House as Home
	Home
	House as Home
	Building Home
	The Housebuilding Industry
	(Mis)understanding Home
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: A History of Bricks in the Building of the English Home
	A History of Brick Homes in England
	Working with Bricks
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Craft and the Graft
	How Homes are Built
	The Brickie
	Skills and Deskilling
	Gender, Strength, and Bodies in Place
	Bodies Out of Place
	Rough Tough and Dangerous
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Owning Home: Homeownership and the Brick-Built House
	The Ideal Home
	The Home in Government Policy
	Home Ownership for Ontological Security
	Homeownership and the Presentation of Self
	Material Memories
	Home as Commodity: Rewards, Risks, and Restraints
	A ‘Site of Authenticity’?
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5: Material Meanings: The Social Life of Brick in Residential Housing
	Material Culture
	Material Meanings
		Strong and Stable
		A Visual Bias?
		Comfortable and Cosy
	The Gap between Matter and Meaning
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: A Sense of Place or a Sense of Space?: How the Brick Maintains a ‘Traditional’ Vision of English Suburban Housing
	Place
	A Suburban Sense of Place
	Planning a Place
	A Traditional Place?
	Mobile in Place
	Selective Tradition
	Embedded in Place
	A Sense of Space?
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 7: Building with Brick: An Assemblage
	The Post-Social Turn
	A Critical Assemblage
	Emerging Assemblages
	The Power Within
	A Flat Ontology
	Redundant Causation
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion: Final Comments
	Notes
Bibliography
Appendix: Glossary
Index