Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World

Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World
ISBN-10
158685237X
ISBN-13
9781586852375
Category
House & Home
Pages
469
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Authors
Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, Eiko Komatsu

Description

Built by Hand is a celebration of what is so uniquely diverse and yet similar in the buildings of different cultures around the world. Beginning with the most basic ways that human beings have sought shelter-beneath the trees and stars, under the protection of a rock cliff or cave-this book traces the transformation of materials such as earth, stone, wood or bamboo into shelters that are both stationary and moveable.

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