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.

Main entry:

Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905-1988, author.

Title & Author:

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.

Publication:

London : Secker and Warburg, 1977.

Description:

383 pages : illustrations (black and white), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Dust jacket.
Library copy 3: Georg Lippsmeier Collection.
Library copy 3: former shelfmark: 721/3.

ISBN:

0436437309
9780436437304

Subject:

Architecture.
Vernacular architecture.
Architecture vernaculaire.
architecture (discipline)
vernacular architecture.
Anonyme Architektur
Architektur
Volksarchitektur
Geschichte

Added entries:

African Architecture Matters
Georg Lippsmeier Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26586
Call No.: W5542
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 26587
Call No.: 7819
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main georg lippsmeier 296945
Call No.: BIB 22878
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

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