Waiting for the Weekend: Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance, Home: A Short History of an Idea, The Most Beautiful House in the World - Couverture souple
Synopsis
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waiting for the Weekend is a book published in 1991 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.In Waiting for the Weekend, Rybczynski recounts the evolution of the seven-day week, which came into being with the Babylonian calendar, and the later, more modern, development of the two-day weekend. In so doing, he tells the history of leisure and time off; starting first with taboo" days, market days, public festivals and holy days and how, with the coming of the Industrial Revolution the practice of "keeping Saint Monday", that is, staying home from work, evolved into the modern weekend. "
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