Study (room)
– **History**:
– Developed from the closet or cabinet of the Renaissance era
– Increased literacy in the 18th century led to the creation of closed study areas in houses
– Gender restrictions made the study primarily a male facility until the 20th century
– 19th-century clergy used the study for sermon preparation
– The Internet transformed historic studies into modern home-offices
– **Transformation**:
– Internet, email, e-commerce, and videotelephony enable remote work
– In Britain, 4.2 million people worked exclusively from home in 2014
– 31% increase in the number of people working from home from 1998 to 2014
– Technological advancements allow productivity from home
– Home-offices have become common due to the technological revolution
– **References**:
– Becker, Joshua’s “The Minimalist Home”
– Boyle, Charles’ “The Domestic World”
– Bryson, Bill’s “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”
– The Economist article from June 23, 2018
– Architecture-related article stub on Wikipedia
– **Categories**:
– Study rooms
– Telecommuting
– Architecture stubs
– Articles with short descriptions
– Articles with unsourced statements from September 2022
– **Sources**:
– Retrieved from Wikipedia
– Becker, Joshua’s book published on December 18, 2018
– Boyle, Charles’ book from December 1991
– Bryson, Bill’s book from 2010
– The Economist article from June 23, 2018
A study, also known as a home office, is a room in a house that is used for paperwork, computer work, or reading. Historically, the study of a house was reserved for use as the private office and reading room of a parent/guardian as the formal head of a household, but today studies are generally either used to operate a home business or else open to the whole family.
