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Life in the English Country House
Fiction
Girouard traces five centuries of English country houses not as aesthetic objects but as social machines — how their room sequences, servant quarters, and ceremonial spaces encoded and reproduced an entire class system. Graham listed it on both his RAQ history page and his obscure favorites; it exemplifies reading buildings the way he reads code: for what the design choices reveal about the designer's values.
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From PG's RAQ history list (also his obscure favorites tweet); reads country houses as social machines that encoded class structure.
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