Hi Ron,
I like this kind of diversion - and actually, it's right on point for
me!
It is interesting that you chose 'cosiness' as a quality to describe an
interior, particularly of a brick building. One of the things I am
exploring in my thesis is looking at what the Dutch call 'gezelligheid'
- socialbility or pleasantness. What the a Dutch East India Company
employee of English ancestry valued as 'gezellig' (being cosy) in a
house on the Cape 400 years ago is not, necessarily the same thing as
new arrivals from Rotterdam valued in Iowa 100 years ago, or as is
valued in Amsterdam today by a Dutch citizen of Indonesian ancestry.
Do you know what made a building cosy for your grandfather? What makes
it cosy for you? What I find interesting in the Dutch construct is that
it often includes an element of sociability (cosy = a place where you
can, literally, through big windows, see folks having a good time
together).
And once you know what cosy is, and that houses should be cosy, there is
the whole relationship between perceptions of 'cosiness' and the thermal
properties of brick!
Best wishes,
Pat
(for whom cosy has an aural component)
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>Pat,
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>I know my point diverted from your thread, but bricks as indicators of
>ethnicity is kinda like ethnic definition of what is cozy space inside a
>building. Cultures tend to establish what a good brick looks like, as
>evidenced by my great grandfather who made bricks in Denmark and then in
>North America in the 19th century. I have seen bricks from Africa that are
>once again different dimensions. Then you get into all those marks on bricks
>and beliefs behind them. There is a whole collection of Spanish tiles/bricks
>with pagan marks, but that is another story.
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>Ron
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