Opening Doors

Clare Cooper, “The House as a Symbol of the Self,” in Designing for Human Behavior: Architecture and the Behavioral Sciences, ed. Jon Lang Dowden, (Stroudsburg Pa: Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1974), 129-156.

Cooper writes about the universal human experience of self identification with one’s dwelling. Various demographics, cultures, and types of dwellings are examined with building interior, exterior, household objects, décor, etc., studied with one eye on the material thing and another on person/people living there. Observations are made regarding social status associated with various types of homes. Life stages such as birh, childhood, marriage, and pregnancy are considered. Special note is made that a house, like a person, has an interior and an exterior.
Photo of Clare Cooper Marcus from Orindabooks.com

Inside Out House by 

Takeshi Hosaka Architects.