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Built by Hand is a celebration of what is so uniquely diverse and yet similar in the buildings of different cultures around the world.Beginning with the most basic ways that human beings have sought shelter-beneath the trees and stars, under the protection of a rock cliff or cave-this book traces the transformation of materials such as earth, stone, wood or bamboo into shelters that are both stationary and moveable.
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Built by Hand, Athena Swentzell Steen, Eiko Komatsu, Bill Steen
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- Built by Hand
- Subtitle
- Vernacular Buildings Around the World
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Athena Swentzell Steen, Eiko Komatsu, Bill Steen
- Publisher
- Gibbs Smith, Publisher
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN10
- 158685237X
- ISBN13
- 9781586852375
- Series
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- Built by Hand is a celebration of what is so uniquely diverse and yet similar in the buildings of different cultures around the world.Beginning with the most basic ways that human beings have sought shelter-beneath the trees and stars, under the protection of a rock cliff or cave-this book traces the transformation of materials such as earth, stone, wood or bamboo into shelters that are both stationary and moveable.