Item #481132 The prodigious builders : notes toward a natural history of architecture with special regard to those species that are traditionally neglected or downright ignored. Bernard Rudofsky.

The prodigious builders : notes toward a natural history of architecture with special regard to those species that are traditionally neglected or downright ignored

1977, First Edition. London : Secker and Warburg. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #481132
ISBN: 0436437309

Physical description; 383 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm. Contents; In Praise of Caves -- Brute Architecture -- When Architecture Was All Play and No Work -- Mobile Architecture -- Storehouses, Cereal and Sepulchral -- Strongholds -- The Vanishing Vernacular -- The Vernacular Obliquely Appraised -- The Importance of Trivia -- The Call of the Minotaur -- Homage to the Squatter -- Block Lust. Subjects; Vernacular architecture. Architecture History.

Price: €48.95

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