Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- 1. An introduction to the study of houses -- 2. Tradition and change in the English house -- 3. Ideas are in things, with Hillier and Graham -- 4. Two domestic 'space codes' compared, with Hillier -- 5. Shaping the taste of middle England -- 6. Configuration and society in the English country house -- 7. Visibility and permeability in the Rietveld Schroder house, with Rosenberg -- 8. The anatomy of privacy in architects' London houses -- 9. 'Deconstructing' architects' houses -- 10. Decoding dwellings: the way ahead
