ISBN: 9780151930500 - The Prodigious Builders: Notes Toward a Natural History of Architecture with Special Regard to Those Species That are Traditionally Neglected or Downright Ignorant (13 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. , 0151930503. . . . . 4to, hardcover, red cloth. Near fine condition in vg+ dj. Dust jacket now in a removable mylar protector. Previous owner's intaglio stamp on half-title page. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 383 pp., illus. Illustrated (illustrator). …

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 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. Illustrated (illustrator). …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Cloth boards have light wear along edges and at corners. Edges of pages have light wear. Mylar-covered dust jacket has light wear including a couple of very small closed tears and very light chipping to head and foot of spine, front corners. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DW: PC Small nick to top edge only. B&W photos throughout. 25 x 22.5. 383 pp. Illustrated (illustrator).

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