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Poems of an Indian summer
To throw a shadow on the earth
The Abode of Fancy
The fire of oak logs
The housewarming ceremony
The perverse arrangement of older houses
The pitched roof
I could never live in a house like that
Secreted
Tree, leaf, house, city
20 Minutes in Manhattan
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Homes at Night
You're living in your very last house
A Song by Lo-Fang
Holistic and prescriptive technologies
Holistic technologies are normally associated with the notion of craft. Artisans, be they potters, weavers, metal-smiths, or cooks, control the process of their own work from beginning to finish. Using holistic technologies does not mean that people do not work together, but the way in which they work together leaves the individual worker in control of a particular process of creating or doing something.
The opposite is specialization by process; this I call prescriptive technology. Here, the making or doing of something is broken down into clearly identifiable steps. Each step is carried out by a separate worker, or group or workers, who need to be familiar only with the skills of performing that one step. This is what is normally meant by "division of labor".