Main entry:

Horning, Jonathan, author.

Title & Author:

Simple shelters : tents, tipis, yurts, domes and other ancient homes / written and illustrated by Jonathan Horning ; with additional material by Brock Horning.

Edition:

Softcover edition.

Publication:

San Rafael, California : Wooden Books LLC, [2022]
©2022

Description:

58 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:
"Hardcover edition first published in the US in 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA, New York" -- Half-title page verso.
Primary forms -- Tensioned coverings -- Black tents -- More black tents -- Simple benders -- Bigger benders -- Woven and conical -- Tipis -- More tipis -- Kathe -- Yurts -- More yurts -- Yaranga and chorama dyu -- Earth lodges and pit houses -- Log cabins -- Hogans -- Bamboo huts -- Bamboo sophistication -- Rounded timber-framed -- Squared timber-framed -- Adobe mud brick -- Straw bales -- Igloos -- Geodesic domes -- More complex domes -- Orientation and symbolism -- Cladding and finishing.

Summary:

"Examines many of the traditional homes found all over the world, including mud-brick adobe structures, bamboo dwellings, nomads' tents and timber frame buildings, as well as modern solutions, from strawbale designs to geodesic domes." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

1952178193 paperback
9781952178191 paperback

Subject:

Dwellings Design and construction.
Vernacular architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Habitations Construction.
Architecture vernaculaire.
vernacular architecture.

Added entries:

Horning, Brock, author.

At head of title on cover : Traveller's guide to simple shelters
Pocket guide to the ideal home

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 316663
Call No.: 316663
Copy: 1
Status: Available