1996, ISBN: 9780893816728

Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine like new.Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library."Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged w… More...

Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine like new.Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library."Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care."Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition celebrates the beauty, variety, and efficiency of traditional adobe architecture in West Africa, Southwest Asia, and the American Southwest. In the severe desert climates of these areas, centuries of working with mud in the construction of homes, mosques, and whole villages have given rise to a remarkable range of styles and forms as visually stunning as any fabled city of myth and imagination - or any postmodern metropolis.By turns delicate and massive, precise and free-form, indigenous adobe architecture displays a formal richness matched by its technical ingenuity. In this abundantly illustrated book, architectural historian Jean-Louis Bourgeois and photographer Carollee Pelos act as guides to a little-known world, interpreting spectacular structures from Mali, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and elsewhere. In these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.Noted Africanist Basil Davidson contributes an introduction that surveys centuries of interplay between Islam, older cultures, and the deserts of Africa and Asia., Aperture Foundation Inc, 1996, 5<

1996, ISBN: 9780893816728

Paperback, Hardcover

Minor wear. Light corner bump, VG. 17pp photoplates. African Ethnology South African Museum Cape Town (1972) orig. wrappers 25x17cm, 101,(34) pp., Series: Annals of the South African Muse… More...

Minor wear. Light corner bump, VG. 17pp photoplates. African Ethnology South African Museum Cape Town (1972) orig. wrappers 25x17cm, 101,(34) pp., Series: Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58, Part 1. Includes 17 single-side photoplates., South African Museum, 3, New York: Praeger Publishers. 1971. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. 16 contributors on the architecture of various tribes and regions. This copy signed and inscribed by the author.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 240 pp ., Praeger Publishers, 1971, 0, New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1996. Softcover. VG- (Page margins are tanning lightly; this copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena on the first page.). Orange and color illus. wraps, 196 pp., color illus. "Celebrates the beauty, variety, and efficiency of traditional adobe architecture in West Africa, Southwest Asia, and the American Southwest. In the severe desert climates of these areas, centuries of working with mud in the construction of homes, mosques, and whole villages have given rise to a remarkable range of styles and forms as visually stunning as any fabled city of myth and imagination -- or any postmodern metropolis. ... Noted Africanist Basil Davidson contributes an introduction that surveys centuries of interplay between Islam, older cultures, and the deserts of Africa and Asia." (inside front cover) This copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena on the first page., Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1996, 3<

1996, ISBN: 9780893816728

Paperback

New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1996. Softcover. VG- (Page margins are tanning lightly; this copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena … More...

New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1996. Softcover. VG- (Page margins are tanning lightly; this copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena on the first page.). Orange and color illus. wraps, 196 pp., color illus. "Celebrates the beauty, variety, and efficiency of traditional adobe architecture in West Africa, Southwest Asia, and the American Southwest. In the severe desert climates of these areas, centuries of working with mud in the construction of homes, mosques, and whole villages have given rise to a remarkable range of styles and forms as visually stunning as any fabled city of myth and imagination -- or any postmodern metropolis. ... Noted Africanist Basil Davidson contributes an introduction that surveys centuries of interplay between Islam, older cultures, and the deserts of Africa and Asia." (inside front cover) This copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena on the first page., Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1996, 3<