Main entry:

Traditionelle Bauweisen. English

Title & Author:

Vernacular architecture : atlas for living throughout the world / Christian Schittich (ed.) ; translation from German into English: Hartwin Busch.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]
©2019

Description:

382 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Europe. Michael Schimek: The Low German House; Konrad Bedal: Half-Timbered Buildings in Southern Germany; Kerstin Richter: Umgebinde Houses in the Border Triangle Between the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland; Marc Antoni Nay: The Engadin House; Giovanni Buzzi: Stone Farmsteads in the Ticino; Roland Flückiger-Seiler: The Alpine Log Construction; Gisle Jakhelln: Houses with Turf Roofs in Northern Europe; J. Otto Habeck: Tents of Nomadic Hunters and Reindeer Herders in Siberia; Önder Kücükerman: The Anatolian-Turkish House -- Asia. Hans Munk Hansen: The Islamic House; Karin Pütt: Dome Houses in Syria; Jan Martin Klessing: Tower Houses in the Old City of Sana'a; Max Klimburg: Traditional Construction in Nuristan; Christian Schittich: Yurts and Black Tents in the High Steppes of Asia; Qinghua Guo: The Tulou Buildings in Fujian; Qinghua Guo and Christian Schittich: Weiwu of the Hakka in Fujian; Peter Herrle and Anna Wozniak: Tibetan Farmhouses; Poonam Verma Mascarenhas: Vernacular Building Tradition of India; Alain Borie: Urban Dwellings in Jaipur, Rajasthan; Klaus Zwerger and Suchon Mallikamarl: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Laos; Daniel Tändler: Hanok in Korea; Klaus Zwerger: The Minka in japan -- Oceania: Andrea Rieger-Jandl: Vernacular Forms of Building in Oceania; Deidre Brown and Jeremy Treadwell: Maori Architecture; Roland Garve: Tree Houses of the Korowai -- Africa. Jürgen Adam and Sophie Karst: Traditional Forms of Construction in the South of Morocco; Gert Chesi: Building with Clay in the Sahel Region; Oliver Heiss, Wolfgang Lauber, Bamadio Kodio: The Architecture of the Dogon in Mali and Burkino Faso; Franco Frescura: The Vernacular Architecture of Southern Africa -- America. Christian Feest: Building Forms in Indigenous North America; Gx Samper, Ximena Samper: Colonial Architecture in Colombia; Jose Afonso Botura Portocarrero: Indigenous Architecture and Construction Technology in Mato Grosso.

Summary:

Traditional building methods - such as those used in pueblos, timbered houses, or the Japanese minka - exist in fascinating diversity and create the face of a region. However, as a result of globalization they have been marginalized in many places. In the fastest developing countries in particular, a wealth of experience that goes back hundreds of years is being irretrievably lost, even though valuable insights can be gained for modern building. Using the examples of selected domestic buildings from all continents, 30 international experts demonstrate why we can still learn from vernacular architecture; they analyze the cultural context and the adaptation to topographic/climactic conditions, and focus on the local materials used as well as on the construction, the building process, and the necessary maintenance.

ISBN:

9783035616316 (hardcover)
3035616310 (hardcover)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture.
Architecture vernaculaire.
vernacular architecture.
Architecture and Planning.
Landschaftsgebundenes Bauen
Klimagerechtes Bauen
Nachhaltigkeit
Architektur
Tradition
Biography.

Added entries:

Schittich, Christian, editor.
Busch, Hartwin, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307693
Call No.: BIB 253175
Status: Available