Room

A room is any distinguishable space within a structure. Usually, a room is separated from other spaces or passageways by interior walls; moreover, it is separated from outdoor areas by an exterior wall, sometimes with a door. Historically the use of rooms dates at least to early Minoan cultures about 2200 BC, where excavations on Santorini, Greece at Akrotiri reveal clearly defined rooms within certain structures.

Historical room types

In early structures, diverse room types could be identified to include bedrooms, kitchens, bathing rooms, reception rooms, and other specialized uses. The aforementioned Akrotiri excavations reveal rooms sometimes built above other rooms connected by staircases, bathrooms with alabaster appliances such as washbasins, bathing tubs, and toilets, all connected to an elaborate twin plumbing systems of ceramic pipes for cold and hot water separately. Ancient Rome manifested very complex building forms with a variety of room types, including some of the earliest examples of rooms for indoor bathing. The Anasazi civilization also had an early complex development of room structures, probably the oldest in North America, while the Maya of Central America had very advanced room configurations as early as several hundred AD. By at least the early Han Dynasty in China (e.g. approximately 200 BC),comfort room complex multi-level building forms emerged, particularly for religious and public purposes; these designs featured many roomed structures and included vertical connections of rooms.

William Allen

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Lenny Abrahamson

Leonard "Lenny" Abrahamson (born 26 January 1966) is an Academy Award nominated Irish film and television director. Abrahamson is known for his films Adam & Paul, Garage, What Richard Did, Frank and Room.

Personal life

Abrahamson was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Edna (Walzman) and Max Abrahamson, a solicitor. He was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Both sides of his family were originally from Eastern Europe, including Poland. Abrahamson studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a scholar in Mental and Moral Science (philosophy) in 1988, having first completed an MA in Theoretical Physics in 1987.

Abrahamson is married to Monika Pamula, a Polish-born film studies teacher; the couple has two children.

Career

Abrahamson was offered a scholarship to study for a PhD in Philosophy in Stanford University. He did not complete this, however, and returned to Ireland to take up filmmaking, initially directing commercials, filming a popular series of adverts for Carlsberg. Abrahamson's first film was Adam & Paul, a black comedy that featured a pair of heroin addicts as they made their way around Dublin in search of a fix. The follow up film to this was 2007's Garage, starring Pat Shortt as a lonely petrol station attendant in rural Ireland. Both films won the IFTA award for best film.

Brie Larson

Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress and singer. Larson began her career as a guest actress on television, making her debut on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1998. She landed her first major role as a series regular on the 2001 sitcom Raising Dad, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. In 2003, she made her film debut in the Disney Channel Original Movie Right on Track as Courtney Enders, followed by appearances in the 2004 films 13 Going on 30 and Sleepover. In 2005, she released her debut album as a singer, titled Finally Out of P.E.. Her performance in the comedy film Hoot (2006) received praise and brought her to the attention of wider audiences, and she had subsequent roles in Tanner Hall (2009), Greenberg (2010), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and 21 Jump Street (2012). In 2013, she received critical praise for her performance as Grace in the indie-drama Short Term 12, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Critic's Choice Award.