Review

To have steered a clear path through so many types of architecture, without flagging and without repetition, is a remarkable achievement, and the many photographs in this book are mostly of the highest quality, and superbly reproduced...an attractive, valuable and provocative book.' (Architectural Review) 'Don't miss Dwellings...beautiful.' (Herald Sun, Australia) 'Fascinating, informative and wonderfully illustrated book...a thought-provoking and humbling look at how other cultures live and survive.' (The Advocate, Australia)

Product Description

Dwellings is an exploration of the types and forms of vernacular houses around the world and how they are constructed, decorated, and inhabited by their occupants. The paperback edition presents a revised and expanded version of this classic text, containing new field research and scholarship. The updated edition includes new academic developments in cultural geography, gender studies, sociology, and anthropology. There are beautiful illustrations throughout the book, largely photographs compiled over the course of the author's field research. This is a useful survey of how different communities cope with issues of climate, migration, mass development and symbolic and cultural meaning in architecture.