The Prodigious Builders: Notes Toward a Natural History of Architecture (1977)
Language: English
Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977
- Hardcover
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Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
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Very Good / Good. Unmarked. Small dealer notations to rear blank leaf. 1977, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. VG Hardcover, red cloth boards, still bright color; corners sharp, white spine lettering bright, spine square. Binding tight, solid & square. Good dust jacket, price-clipped; still bright; 2 inch chip, paper missing, along front panel lower edge near corner; 0.5 inch tear w/ small chip, paper missing, to rear panel top edge; light rubbing to jacket edges; interior jacket tanned unevenly at creases. Black endpapers. Text block edges clean. Illustrated w/ b&w photographs, engravings and drawings throughout; notes. 383 pp. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Bernard Rudofsky's The Prodigious Builders, published in 1977 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, extends the inquiry he began w/ Architecture Without Architects into a fuller natural history of building. The subtitle sets the program: notes toward a natural history of architecture w/ special regard to those species that are traditionally neglected or downright ignored. More than 100 of Rudofsky's own photographs accompany the text, along w/ period engravings and other illustrations. Chapters range from cave dwellings and hillside towns to fortified villages, earthworks, tombs and monuments, from the floating villages of China to a Polish salt mine large enough to hold churches and a railway, and the Dogon Big House of West Africa. Parts of the chapters on caves and strongholds first appeared, in different form, in Horizon magazine in 1967 and 1971. Rudofsky (1905-1988), born in Moravia, earned a doctorate in architecture in Austria and lived in New York, on and off, from 1935. His 1964 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Architecture Without Architects toured for eleven years to nearly eighty venues, and his books include Streets for People (1969) and The Unfashionable Human Body (1971). He was a Ford, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow.…
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- Title
- The Prodigious Builders: Notes Toward a Natural History of Architecture (1977)
- Author
- Bernard Rudofsky
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0151930503
- ISBN 13
- 9780151930500
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Item weight
- 69 ounces
- Dimensions
- 9x8x1
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture
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