Folk Architecture of the East Mediterranean [SOLD]


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  • Subject: NM Architecture & Design
  • Item # C4412Q
  • Date Published: First edition hardback, 1966
  • Size: 145 pages
  • Price: $13

Folk Architecture of the East Mediterranean

by Daniel Paulk Branch

Columbia University Press, New York

First edition hardback, 1966, 145 pages


From the Foreword

The architecture of primitive, preliterate or illiterate mankind often displays a comprehension of needs and a mastery of means which put to shame the buildings of highly developed technologies like our own.  One might almost say, without too much exaggeration, that authentically poor architecture is a luxury which only modern technology could produce or modern affluence afford.  In contrast, the vernacular architectures of the world seem to hold such obvious lessons in sanity and coherence that it is not surprising to find young men like Daniel Branch turning to them with interest.

Modern archaeology has established the fact that the peasantry of this area lives even today in houses which do not differ in any fundamental respect from those of two or three millennia ago.  The continuing interest of modern architects in vernacular architecture found its most recent expression in Bernard Rudolsky’s splendid show at the Museum of Modern Art, Architecture Without Architects (1965).

At the time of publishing of this book, Daniel Paulk Branch was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Florida, and a practicing architect in Gainesville, Florida.

  • Subject: NM Architecture & Design
  • Item # C4412Q
  • Date Published: First edition hardback, 1966
  • Size: 145 pages
  • Price: $13

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