1998, ISBN: 026253150X

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[EAN: 9780262531504], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts], 152 Pages Indexed. There is a small top corner crease. An exploration of the smallest and s… More...

[EAN: 9780262531504], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts], 152 Pages Indexed. There is a small top corner crease. An exploration of the smallest and simplest of dwellings offers answers to some of the largest and oldest questions about architecture. This small book on small dwellings explores some of the largest questions that can be posed about architecture. What begins where architecture ends? What was before architecture? The ostensible subject of Ann Cline's inquiry is the primitive hut, a one-room structure built of common or rustic materials. Does the proliferation of these structures in recent times represent escapist architectural fantasy, or deeper cultural impulses? As she addresses this question, Cline gracefully weaves together two stories: one of primitive huts in times of cultural transition, and the other of diminutive structures in our own time of architectural transition. From these narrative strands emerges a deeper inquiry: what are the limits of architecture? What ghosts inhabit its edges? What does it mean to dwell outside it? Cline's project began twenty-five years ago, when she set out to translate the Japanese tea ritual into an American idiom. First researching the traditional tea practices of Japan, then building and designing huts in the United States, she attempted to make the "translation" from one culture to another through the use of common American building materials and technology. But her investigation eventually led her to look at many nonarchitectural ideas and sources, for the hut exists both at the beginning of and at the farthest edge of architecture, in the margins between what architecture is and what it is not. In the resulting narrative, she blends autobiography, historical research, and cultural criticism to consider the place that such structures as shacks, teahouses, follies, casitas, and diners'simple, "undesigned" places valued for their timelessness and authenticity occupy from both a historical and contemporary perspective. This book is an original and imaginative attempt to rethink architecture by studying its boundary conditions and formative structures., Books<

1998, ISBN: 9780262531504

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998. Assumed First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 152 Pages Indexed. There is a small top corner crease. An exploration of … More...

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998. Assumed First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 152 Pages Indexed. There is a small top corner crease. An exploration of the smallest and simplest of dwellings offers answers to some of the largest and oldest questions about architecture. This small book on small dwellings explores some of the largest questions that can be posed about architecture. What begins where architecture ends? What was before architecture? The ostensible subject of Ann Cline's inquiry is the primitive hut, a one-room structure built of common or rustic materials. Does the proliferation of these structures in recent times represent escapist architectural fantasy, or deeper cultural impulses? As she addresses this question, Cline gracefully weaves together two stories: one of primitive huts in times of cultural transition, and the other of diminutive structures in our own time of architectural transition. From these narrative strands emerges a deeper inquiry: what are the limits of architecture? What ghosts inhabit its edges? What does it mean to dwell outside it? Cline's project began twenty-five years ago, when she set out to translate the Japanese tea ritual into an American idiom. First researching the traditional tea practices of Japan, then building and designing huts in the United States, she attempted to make the "translation" from one culture to another through the use of common American building materials and technology. But her investigation eventually led her to look at many nonarchitectural ideas and sources, for the hut exists both at the beginning of and at the farthest edge of architecture, in the margins between what architecture is and what it is not. In the resulting narrative, she blends autobiography, historical research, and cultural criticism to consider the place that such structures as shacks, teahouses, follies, casitas, and diners'simple, "undesigned" places valued for their timelessness and authenticity occupy from both a historical and contemporary perspective. This book is an original and imaginative attempt to rethink architecture by studying its boundary conditions and formative structures., MIT Press, 1998, 3<

1998, ISBN: 026253150X

[EAN: 9780262531504], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge], TASSAJARA,PO-I,LA CROSSE,HERMIT FINCH,ISLAIS CREEK CHANNEL,KAMO-NO CHOMEI,ZEN,… More...

[EAN: 9780262531504], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge], TASSAJARA,PO-I,LA CROSSE,HERMIT FINCH,ISLAIS CREEK CHANNEL,KAMO-NO CHOMEI,ZEN,TOGUDO,VITRUVOIS,ENNAN TEAHOUSE,KURT SCHWITTERS,FOLLY EXHIBITION OF 1983,CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE,CANNAREGIO COMPETITION,GEORG BASELITZ,ALLOTMENT PARK,REICHERT HOUSE SEATTLE,VANNA VENTURI,OKUTSU-IWAKURA,BUILDINGS,MEDITATE,BOXCAR,RITUAL,JEN,SEDUCTIONS,PERCEPTIONS,HAMEAU,COTTAGE,PROSCENIUM,ABBOT-PHILOSOPHE,CASITA,SPIRITUAL,VISTA,HABITATIONS,RECLUSE,DWELLING,TEA-MAKING,SHANTYTOWNS,, SUBTITLED : ` Life Outside the Circle of Architecture ". In these 153 pages, including INDEX, the author knowingly explores the building process outside of tradition. Usually small, usually contemplative. Often irrational or challenging. A big part of his thinking is influenced by the tea traditions of Japan. Plenty of b/w photos. Learn more about : Okutsu-iwakura, Hermit Finch, Marie Antoinette's hameau, Folly Exhibition of 1983, and Robert Venturi. Cond : Paper wrapper is black with white lettering. Front cover illustration is of a Alabama sharecroppers' house - a 1941 photograph by Walker Evans. Volume is clean, square, tight, and bright with the tiniest bits of wear. No names, marks, nor tears. Excellent reference ! ! Quote (p. 05) : " While the recluse poets followed Lao Tzu's lead and took pleasure in their rustic surroundings, the desert fathers did battle with that pleasure. The abbot Mark, noting that it is `good to have nothing in your cell that gives you pleasure, ' tells of another who ._._._. ." Size: 8vo, Books<