Author
Paul Oliver
ISBN
0714842028
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Dwellings
The architecture by the people represents in excess of 90 per cent of the world's buildings, including some 800 million dwellings. Dwellings is about the types and forms of vernacular houses around the world, traditional buildings that are self-built by their owner-occupiers or built by members of a community, from many countries.
Dwellings is an essential record of domestic buildings by indigenous groups that still exist and thrive in the world today, as well as others that are sadly under threat or disappearing. It is also a useful survey for understanding how different communities cope with issues that affect everyone who builds, eg. climate, migration, as well as symbolic or cultural meaning in architecture.
Since its first publication in 1987, Dwellings: The House Accross the World has been the classic reference to the world's informal domestic architecture. This new book, Dwellings: The Vernacular House World Wide takes into account further scholarship in the field and also acknowledges theoratical developments in the areas of cultural geography, gender studies, sociology and anthropology. Each narrative chapter is highly illustrated with drawings and photographs, largely by the author from this research field trips over many years. For architects and students, and for those involved in historical research, or the field of vernacular architecture, it is a fascinating and informative document of the ways in which houses are constructed, decorated and inhabited around the world.
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