Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture

Rudofsky, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0385074875 / ISBN 13: 9780385074872

Published by Museum of Modern Art, 1965

About this Item

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding with previous owner's name at front. 157 pages. 8 1/2"w x 9 1/2"h. Many b&w photos. 2nd printing. Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery. Exhibition catalog published for Museum of Modern Art exhibition November 1964 to February 1965 examining vernacular or non-pedigreed architecture as universal phenomenon, documenting communal architecture produced not by specialists but by spontaneous and continuing activity of whole people with common heritage acting within community experience, presenting examples including prehistoric theater districts, African cliff dwellings, Chinese underground villages with schools offices and factories, and storage fortresses from over sixty countries, arguing beauty of primitive architecture results from human intelligence applied to uniquely human modes of life, with 156 black-and-white illustrations. Keywords: Vernacular, Communal, Underground Towns, Cliff Dwellings, Exhibition Catalog, Non-Pedigreed, Spontaneous Activity, Common Heritage, Illustrated, MoMA Exhibition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385074875
• ISBN 13: 9780385074872
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

A discussion of the form and constuction of indigenous architecture not attributed to any particular architect

From the Back Cover

In this book, out of print since 1980, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon.