A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Fourth printing. Perfect Bound. Octavo, pp. 153, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Very Good. Item #23662
This small book on small dwellings explores some of the largest questions that can be posed about architecture. What begins where architecture ends? What was before architecture? The ostensible subject of the author's inquiry is the primitive hut, a one-room structure built of common or rustic materials. Does the proliferation of these structures in recent times represent escapist architectural fantasy, or deeper cultural impulses? This book is an original and imaginative attempt to rethink architecture by studying its boundary conditions and formative structures; a great read.
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