Spectacular vernacular : a new appreciation of traditional desert architecture / text by Jean-Louis Bourgeois ; photographs by Carollee Pelos.

Main entry:

Bourgeois, Jean-Louis, 1940- author.

Title & Author:

Spectacular vernacular : a new appreciation of traditional desert architecture / text by Jean-Louis Bourgeois ; photographs by Carollee Pelos.

Publication:

Salt Lake City : Peregrine Smith Books, 1983.

Description:

x, 109 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portrait ; 21 x 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-104) and index.
Preface -- The image of the desert -- Water, sand, and snow -- Mud stands up : construction techniques -- Mud in our eyes -- Walls and roofs -- Wind and ventilation -- Sacred mud : Sahelian mosques -- Asking the good and strong : Afghan Muslim shrines -- David and Goliath : mud vs. money.

ISBN:

0879051442 (pbk.)
9780879051440 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Arid regions Africa, West.
Architecture Arid regions Middle East.
Building, Adobe Africa, West.
Building, Adobe Middle East.
Vernacular architecture Africa, West.
Vernacular architecture Middle East.
Architecture Arid regions.
Vernacular architecture.
Architecture Régions arides.
Architecture vernaculaire.
Architecture Régions arides Afrique occidentale.
Construction en adobe Afrique occidentale.
Architecture vernaculaire Afrique occidentale.
vernacular architecture.
Building, Adobe
Architektur
Wüste
West Africa
Middle East

Added entries:

Pelos, Carollee, 1939- photographer (expression)

New appreciation of traditional desert architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 8314
Call No.: PO1667
Status: Available

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