Dwellings: The Vernacular House Worldwide

Dwellings is an exploration of the types and forms ofvernacular houses around the world and how they are constructed, decorated,and inhabited by their occupants.The paperback edition presents a revisedand expanded version of this classic text, containing new field researchand scholarship.The updated edition includes new academic developments incultural geography, gender studies, sociology, and anthropology.There arebeautiful illustrations throughout the book, largely photographs compiledover the course of the author's field research.This is a useful survey ofhow different communities cope with issues of climate, migration, massdevelopment and symbolic and cultural meaning in architecture.