Commonsense Architecture: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Practical Design Principles

By John S. Taylor

Book Overview

This book reminds us that most of what we need to know is simply what we've already forgotten. John Taylor's trained eye and skilled hand celebrate details of: -- Thousand-year-old earth-sheltered... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393016471
• ISBN13: 9780393016475
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Format and Content

This is an odd little book, but a very good one, filled with hundreds of ink drawings and with handwritten explanations of their meanings. It essentially describes architecture with a anthropologist's understanding of human motivations to build. It describes problems humans have had across cultures with their environment, and what they have built to solve these problems. I picked it up to learn some about basic architecture, and ended up learning a good deal more about...well, everything!