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The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture
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Through nuanced architectural analysis and detailed social history Yanni offers unexpected glimpses into the past: double-loaded corridors (which made surveillance easy but echoed with noise) staircase plans (which prevented roughhousing but offered no communal space) lavish lounges in women’s halls (intended to civilize male visitors) specially designed upholstered benches for courting couples mixed-gender saunas for students in the radical 1960s and lazy rivers for the twenty-first century’s stressed-out undergraduates
ISBN-10: 080271773X
Simple Shelters: Tents. Tipis. Yurts. Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books) Format:Hardcover First Edition First edition editionThe need for shelter is one of mankind's most basic and mankind has been inventive in creating homes to fill this need. This book looks at the principal types of wooden and stick frame structures built around the world and examines how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian ones. The book charts the gradual shift from the circular homes of nomads to the rectangular ones favored by
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