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Autor: Oliver, Paul.
ISBN: 978-0-415-41151-6.
Editorial: Routledge
Características: 2007, 160 Págs., 2007, Inglés, Cartoné.
Precio orientativo: 86,54 euros (IVA incluido).
Materia: Arquitectura / construccion.
Sub-materia: Arquitectura (general).
The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps. Mapping such diverse aspects as materials and resources, technologies, structural systems, symbolism, forms and service systems on a cross-cultural and comparative basis, the "Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World" reveals the distribution, diversity and relationships of the world's vernacular building traditions. Indicating geographical patterns, developments, lacunae and anomalies, it gives rise to new insights and understandings, stimulating new hypotheses, questions and research efforts.Augmenting the award-winning "Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World", the "Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World" constitutes a...






