ABSTRACT
As a building to illustrate the theme of this book, the vacation house might seem an unpromising and inappropriate subject. Small, obscure and, as a proportion of the total built environment, numerically insignificant, only in the last decade-in the context of ‘second homes’—has the vacation house become a subject of controversy.1 Unlike the tower block or the multimillion-pound town hall, the vacation house is, by virtue of its function, often hidden from the everyday environment, part of the anonymous architecture seen at occasional times in the year.
