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The Vernacular House Worldwide

An exploration of the types and forms of vernacular houses worldwide.

Paul Oliver

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Price: USD$35.00

350 points

Specifications

Paperback
English
245 x 210 mm, 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 in
288 pp
300 colour illustrations, 150 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714847931
ISBN-10: 0714847933

Overview

An exploration of the types and forms of vernacular houses around the world and how they are constructed, decorated and inhabited by their occupants
A revised and expanded edition of a classic text, containing new field research and scholarship
Includes new academic developments in cultural geography, gender studies, sociology and anthropology
Beautifully illustrated throughout, largely by photographs compiled in the course of the author's field research
A useful survey of how different communities cope with issues of climate, migration, mass development and symbolic and cultural meaning in architecture

In The Press

To have steered a clear path through so many types of architecture, without flagging and without repetition, is a remarkable achievement, and the many photographs in this book are mostly of the highest quality, and superbly reproduced...an attractive, valuable and provocative book.' (Architectural Review)

'Don't miss Dwellings...beautiful.' (Herald Sun, Australia)

'Fascinating, informative and wonderfully illustrated book...a thought-provoking and humbling look at how other cultures live and survive.' (The Advocate, Australia)

About the author(s)

Paul Oliver is the Chair of the Master's course in International Studies in Vernacular Architecture at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University.