Buildings Without Architects : a Global Guide to Everyday Architecture
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John May Anthony Reid, Consultant Editor BUILDINGS WITHOUT ARCHITECTS A GLOBAL GUIDE TO EVERYDAY ARCHITECTURE cRizzoli X^JNEW YORK New York Paris - London Milan CONTENTS Foreword by Anthony Reid 6 Gallery of Building Media 8 Introduction by John May 42 FROM DUTCH WINDMILLS TO FROM THE PLAINS TIPI TO GERMAN BARNS 46 FRONTIER LOG CABINS 120 Sami Gamme and Goatte 48 Inuit Igloo 122 Hebridean Black House 50 Haida Plank House 124 Cruck-Frame Buildings 52 Plains Indian Tipi 126 Cob House 54 Big Barn 128 Hallenhaus House Barn 56 l-House, Cracker House, and Saltbox 130 Early Dutch Windmills 58 Log Cabin 132 Later Dutch Windmills 60 Shaker-Style Buildings 134 Russian Izba 62 New Mexican Adobe House 136 Wood Churches 64 Slovenian Hayrack and Bee House 66 FROM CHATTEL HOUSES TO URUS REED HOUSES 138 FROM MEDITERRANEAN CAVES Tzotzil Chukal Na 140 TO BEDOUIN TENTS 68 Caribbean Chattel House 142 Trullo Stone House 70 Yanomami Shabano 144 Mediterranean Cave Dwellings 72 Paisa House 146 Cappadocian Cave Dwellings 74 Urus Reed House 148 Black Tents 76 Wood Churches of ChiloS 150 Yemen Tower House 78 Marsh Arab Reed House 80 FROM BALINESE KUREN TO Iranian Desert Towns 82 MAORI MEETINGHOUSES 152 FROM JAPANESE MINKA TO TODA HUTS 84 Balinese Kuren 154 Kalinga Octagonal House 156 Japanese Minka 86 Toraja Tongkonan 158 Japanese Townhouse 88 Korowai Tree House 160 Chinese Yao Dong 90 Abelara Spirit House 162 Fujian Tulou 92 Aboriginal Shelter 164 Mongolian Ger 94 Maori Meetinghouse 166 Lhasa Buildings 96 Samoan Fale Tele 168 Indian Stepped Ponds and Stepwells 98 Toda Hut 100 MODERN VERNACULAR FROM ZULU INDLU TO THE ARCHITECTURE 170 "VENICE OF AFRICA" 102 Brazilian Squatter Settlements 172 Indian and Filipino Squatter Settlements 174 Great Mosque of Djenne 104 Earthships 176 Mousgoum Tolek 106 Bottle 178 GanviiS Stilt Village 108 Buildings Natural Building 180 Batammaliba Roundhouse 110 Vernacular Revivals 182 RendilleMin 112 Zafimaniry House 114 Glossary 184 Zulu Indlu 116 Resources 186 Ndebele Painted House 118 Index 188 Acknowledgments 192.