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Buildings without architects : a global guide to everyday architecture Cover Image Book

Buildings without architects : a global guide to everyday architecture / John May

May, John, 1950- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780847833610
  • ISBN: 0847833615
  • Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Rizzoli, [2010]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical reference (p. 186-187) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreward / Anthony Reid -- Gallery of building media -- Introduction / John May -- From Dutch windmills to German barns -- From Mediterranean caves to Bedouin tents -- From Japanese Minka to Toda huts -- From Zulu indlu to the "Venice of Africa" -- From the plains tipi to frontier log cabins -- From chattel houses to Urus Reed houses -- From Balinese kuren to Maori meetinghouses -- Modern vernacular architecture

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Subject: Vernacular architecture.
Architecture > History.

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Old Fort Branch Library 720.9 MAY (Text) 37810435496400 Adult New Nonfiction Available -