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Title: Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World by Eiko Komatsu, Athena Steen, Bill Steen ISBN: 1-58685-237-X Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World
Comment: A photographic anthology of the astounding variety of architecture produced without architects-a colorful successor to Bernard Rudofsky's pioneering study of vernacular building, Architecture Without Architects. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book on verancular architecture ever
Comment: Without qualification, this is the greatest account of vernacular architecture, indigenous shelter, and traditional folk-built home images ever published. And it won't likely be surpassed, since fanatical photographer Yoshio Komatsu spent 25 years travelling the globe to document the full jaw-dropping variety of shelter on earth. He's been EVERYWHERE. I can't think of a remote region of Asia, Africa, South American and Europe that he missed; most of the styles are new and stimulating to me, and I've been around. While the classic small tome of Architecture Without Architects hints dreamily at this diversity, Built By Hand completes the thought by explicitly celebrating this abundance in vivid in-your-face technicolor. It's in a different league from all previous vernacular architecture books. This one is a stupendous 480-page cornucopic tome overflowing with 700 photographs, and thousands of details, hopes, and design ideas. Totally breathtaking, totally awesome! If this doesn't get you to grab a hammer, nothing will.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ultimate Book on Vernacular Architecture
Comment: There has never been a photographer of buildings like Yoshio Komatsu. He's been shooting photos around the world for 25 years now and this stunning book is the result. It's a spectacular photo journey, like a film, around the planet, giving you rare glimpses of shelter in every corner of the earth. The photos are absolutely wonderful. Text and editing are by straw bale gurus Bill and Athena Steen, and Eiko Komatsu. This is like an updated, expanded, technicolor, improved-upon Architecture Without Architects. Wow!
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Title: Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky ISBN: 0826310044 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa by James Morris, Suzanne Preston Blier ISBN: 1568984138 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Dwellings by Paul Oliver ISBN: 0714842028 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Shelter by Bob Easton, Lloyd Kahn ISBN: 0936070110 Publisher: Shelter Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Banco: Adobe Mosques of the Inner Niger Delta (Imago Mundi series) by Sebastian Schutyser, Jean Dethier, Ruth Eaton, Dorothee Gruner ISBN: 8874390513 Publisher: 5 Continents Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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