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Vernacular Architecture : Critical and Primary Sources
Vernacular Architecture : Critical and Primary Sources
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Year: 202311
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Introduction to Four Volume Work Volume 1: TAXONOMIES AND GEOGRAPHY Introduction 1. The Stone Sponge - Edward Allen 2. Of Dry Stone: Alberobello - Edward Allen 3. Of Mortared Stone: Cisternino - Edward Allen 4. The Tools Used in Building Log Houses in Indiana - Warren E. Roberts 5. Natural Place - Christian Norberg-Schulz 6. Man-Made Place - Christian Norberg-Schulz 7.


Toward a Southwestern Architecture - David R. Williams 8. Louisiana House Types - Fred B. Kniffen 9. Building Dwelling Thinking - Martin Heidegger 10. Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture - Sibyl Moholy-Nagy 11. Turnovo - Le Corbusier, tr. Ivan Zaknic 12.


Burgesses - Taut, Bruno, and Hideo Shinoda 13. Are They Men? / Earliest Settlements of the Aryas on the Upper Affluents of the Indus - Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, tr. Benjamin Bucknall 14. Introduction / Houses of the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico - Lewis H. Morgan 15. The House - Edward S. Morse 16. Walls - Charles Frederick Innocent 17.


The Origin of Log Houses in the United States - Henry Mercer 18. The Natives of the Trobriand Islands - Bronislaw Malinowski 19. Bantu Homes and Kraals - James Walton 20. The Houses of the Second Period, 1675-1700 - Norman M. Isham and Albert F. Brown 21. Introduction, Précis of the Lectures on Architecture - Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand 22. The Concept of Diffusion in Its Application to Vernacular Building - J.


T. Smith 23. Preface, Architecture Without Architects - Bernard Rudofsky 24. On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society - William Morris Volume 2: SOCIAL LIFE Introduction 1. Eighteenth-Century Cultural Process in Delaware Valley Folk Building - Henry Glassie 2. Just Folks Designing: Vernacular Designers and the Generations of Form - Thomas Hubka 3. The Shotgun House: An African Architectural Legacy. Part I - John Michael Vlach 4.


The Living House - Roxana Waterson 5. The Unselfconscious Process - Christopher Alexander 6. The Selfconscious Process - Christopher Alexander 7. The Architectural Competence - Henry Glassie 8. Counting Houses - Henry Glassie 9. The Mechanics of Structural Innovation - Henry Glassie 10. Wood, Earth, and Fiber (California) - Peter Nabokov 11. Assembly and Rearing of the House Frame - Abbott Lowell Cummings 12.


Handed Down Architecture: Tradition and Transmission - Paul Oliver 13. Speaking to and Talking About: Maori Architecture - Michael Linzey 14. Stability and Change in Tradition - Edward Shils 15. Concepts of Space-Time - Christine Hugh-Jones 16. Recalling Things Forgotten: Archaeology and the American Artifact - Lewis H. Morgan 17. Aboriginal Signs and Architectural Meanings - Paul Memmott 18. Architectural Archetypes: Reflections on Housing in "Paradise" - Suzanne Preston Blier 19.


Thinking and Doing - Joseph Rykwert 20. The Variety of Chinese Rural Dwellings - Ronald G. Knapp 21. Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies - Cary Carson & Norman F. Barka, William M. Kelso, Garry Wheeler Stone, and Dell Upton Volume 3: THE CULTURE OF CONSTRUCTION Introduction 1. Jacob W. Holt: An American Builder - Catherine W.


Bishir 2. The Plan: Small Houses and Their Regional Varieties - Stefan Muthesius 3. The End of Artisan Production - Linda Clarke 4. Regulation Without Laws - Sam Bass Warner 5. Vernacular Gardens - John Brinckerhoff Jackson 6. The Wheelwright''s Shop - George Sturt 7. Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skyline in New York and Chicago - Carol Willis 8. The Wild Melody of Steam: The Mechanization of the Manufacture of Building Materials, 1850-1890 - Carl R.


Lounsbury 9. Why Tobias Walker Moved His Barn - Thomas Hubka 10. The Power of Things: Recent Studies in American Vernacular Architecture - Dell Upton 11. The Art of Building - Fernando Varanda 12. Islamic Law and Neighbourhood Building Guidelines - Besim S. Hakim 13. Agreements, Contracts, and Control - Howard Davis 14. Knowing the Oriental - Edward W.


Said 15. Disappearing Dichotomies: First World--Third World; Traditional--Modern - Janet Abu-Lughod 16. Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of ''Both-And'' in Architecture - Robert Venturi Volume 4: THE EMERGING URBAN VERNACULAR Introduction 1. Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town-plan Analysis - Michael Robert Gunter Conzen 2. The Valuable Inefficiencies and Impracticalities of Cities - Jane Jacobs 3. Introduction, The Social Logic of Space - Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson 4. Benavides and the Barriada Movement - John F.C.


Turner and William P. Mangin 5. The Need for Aged Buildings - Jane Jacobs 6. The Kind of Problem a City Is - Jane Jacobs 7. Fugue, Architect, Peasant, and Bureaucrat - Hassan Fathy 8. The Reeducation of a Professional - John F.C. Turner 9.


The Forgotten Architecture of the Strip - Robert Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brow and Steven Izenour 10. Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning - Ananya Roy 11. Haussmann in the Tropics - Mike Davis 12. The City Is Not a Tree - Christopher Alexander 13. Speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1984 - King Charles III 14. Charter of the New Urbanism - Congress for the New Urbanism.


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