Vernacular

This first ever complete guide to Scottish bothies reveals the country's unique and often hidden network of bothy cabins and mountain huts. Scattered across Scotland's most beautiful landscapes, these evocative abandoned crofts and farmsteads are free to...

"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870736244Author Stefan SzczelkunFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Routine Art Co.Publisher Routine Art Co.Weight(grams) 165g

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home.So much architectural response to war has focused on 'cultural heritage', the destruction of infrastructure, and of ancient architecture - here, Ammar Azzouz moves the focus somewhere more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040760Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

New Orleans, like Venice, is built in a location that at first sight seems curious in the extreme. How could it be that these cities, built so precariously in the face of a watery threat, were to become among the great cities of the world? How could a...

Tree houses have come a long way since our collective childhoods. The very definition of a tree house has broadened to now include anything from a boutique hotel room where star gazing is a must to exceptional viewing platforms and, of course, not...

Across the African continent, but especially in the sub-Saharan regions the light provided by the sun has a particularly stark quality, which becomes most apparent in relation to age-old buildings and in the way in which it shapes daily routines. Without...

Your hands-on, day-to-day guide to small practice. This book provides reassurance as to how to achieve great results on a budget, utilising stripped-back and efficient solutions, while following the principles and stages of the RIBA Plan of Work. Each...

House design in Britain and Ireland is guided by climate, landscape and local resources just as much as the centuries-old traditions that have influenced architectural shape and form. Today's best-known and emerging architects interpret their briefs with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558791Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

The third edition of the leading introduction to traditional buildings contains a completely new chapter that carries forward the story to the Vernacular Revival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows its influence on houses of today.Is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412099516Author Nigel McCullagh PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams)...

Francesco Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial effects. Here is the first book in English to survey the whole work of the master. The author, former Director of the...

Although race - a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination - has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline...

"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius"A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for...

"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design.In...

Art and especially architecture are often seen as the exclusive realm of formally trained experts. Award-winning architects Steven and Cathi House explore the other side of that reality in a part of the world that has been at the crossroads of history...

How have Indigenous building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? How has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial...

In Exploring Gender in Vernacular Architecture, Jessica Ellen Sewell considers the gender of those who create and shape spaces, how gender ideology contributes to and manifests itself in built form, and what research methods make the observation of...

The rich, multicultural heritage of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country provide the backdrop for this first comprehensive guide to the culturally significant vernacular buildings of this diverse and historic region: structures designed and constructed...

This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of "development" after World War II. Development theory did not manifest itself in tracts of economic and political theory alone...

Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula juts into Lake Superior, pointing from the western Upper Peninsula toward Canada. Native peoples mined copper there for at least five thousand years, but the industrial heyday of the "Copper Country" began in the late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136706Author Audra BellmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870736237Author Stefan SzczelkunFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Routine Art Co an imprint of Working PressPublisher Working PressWeight(grams)...

This book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emerging conditions, Ulaanbaatar is conceived as an incubator for alternative urban concepts. The book rejects...

The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on 'cultural heritage', ancient architecture, and the external displacement of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383419494Author Ranjana MitalFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Copal PublishingPublisher Copal PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913811150Author Abu Hassan JalilFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ibra & NbbPublisher Ibra & NbbWeight(grams) 581g

Exploring America's material culture, Common Places reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the everyday structures and environments of ordinary people. Examining America's houses and cityscapes, its...

For anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this is the story of that barn and many others in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One of the...

First published in 1990, this book was not meant to represent one view or approach. The only unifying element is the subject matter. There are not only disagreements over the interpretation of objective facts, but there is a fundamental difference in the...

Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental Response was not meant to be...

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Placemaking: Production of Built Environment in Two Cultures is a book about the...

Drawing on the author’s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong’s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong’s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the...