Dwellings
Title | Dwellings PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Hogan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1996-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0684830337 |
Whether she is writing about bats, bees, procupines, or wolves, contemplating the mysteries of caves, or delving into the traditions, beliefs, and myths of Native American cultures, Linda Hogan expresses a deep reverence for the dwelling we all share--the Earth. 16 line drawings.
Dwellings
Title | Dwellings PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Sills |
Publisher | Bulfinch |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2003-09-15 |
Genre | House & Home |
ISBN | 9780821228463 |
Two of today's most acclaimed interior designers share their secrets in this ultimate guidebook for creating a beautiful home.
The Plan Book of American Dwellings
Title | The Plan Book of American Dwellings PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Lyle Saxton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN |
Drawn from African Dwellings
Title | Drawn from African Dwellings PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Paul Bourdier |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
This exquisitely illustrated study takes us into the traditionally built dwellings of African society. This life-in-architecture material culture reveals the socioeconomic and cosmological organization and the world views of these societies. Bourdier and Trinh connect structural patterns - setting, design, decoration, orientation - to factors such as kinship, gender, history, religion, poetry, and oral traditions. The authors focus on a variety of African peoples, including the Fulbe, Tokolor, Sereer, Joola, Soninke, Mandingo, Jaxanke, and Bassari. Through photographs, beautifully detailed drawings, and theoretical reflections, Bourdier and Trinh challenge the common perception that traditional dwellings are static artifacts.
The Cliff Dwellings Speak
Title | The Cliff Dwellings Speak PDF eBook |
Author | Beth Sagstetter |
Publisher | Benchmark Publishing (Company) |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Archaeology and history |
ISBN | 9780964582422 |
This book is intended as an introduction to Southwestern Archaeology, for casual visitors. The book will guide you around a site in Sherlock Holmes fashion, giving you very real tools for understanding cliff dwellings. The Cliff Dwellings Speak also introduces readers to the descendants of the cliff dwellers -- the Pueblo people of the Southwest who still live there today. The book is highly illustrated with black and white photographs and engravings from rare antique books. Using copious illustrations, Field Guides in some chapters show the reader what to look for, and what it might mean. The Cliff Dwellings Speak is unique and is very different from any other book regarding understanding the Greater American Southwest (views of Native American, Anasazi, ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado; landscape images of Colorado).
China's Old Dwellings
Title | China's Old Dwellings PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald G. Knapp |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2019-03-31 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0824881117 |
China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (UH Press, 1999), together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of fieldwork and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages. China's Old Dwellings begins by tracing the interest in Chinese vernacular buildings in the twentieth century. Early chapters detail common and distinctive spatial components, including the interior and exterior modular spaces that are axiomatic components of most Chinese dwellings as well as conventional structural components and building materials common in Chinese construction. Later chapters examine representative housing types in the three broad cultural realms--northern, southern, and western--into which China has been divided. Knapp completes his survey with an exploration of China's old dwellings in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that are destroying so many of them.
Equivalent Elimination of Unsafe Or Insanitary Dwellings
Title | Equivalent Elimination of Unsafe Or Insanitary Dwellings PDF eBook |
Author | United States Housing Authority |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 12 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Housing |
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