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CHARDAK Between Heaven and Earth; Tracing Vernacular Space in Balkan Architecture; Judith Bing
Nikša Božić
Sažetak
The book written by the American architect and professor Judith Bing is dedicated to vernacular architecture of the Balkans. It is a comprehensive research, travel book and a study on culture. The theme of the book is čardak, a structure widely known in the Balkan region. The book is the result of thirty years of research that began as a study on timber architecture in the former Yugoslavia and continued as a personal quest for čardak and its distribution in the region. The book covers the areas spreading from Croatia in the west to Turkish Anatolia in the east. It shows typical characteristics of a travel book, as a kind of hommage to Le Corbusier’s travel book Le Voyage d’Orient from 1911. Richly illustrated with author’s photographs and drawings, the book focuses on the architectural features of čardak. However, the breadth of the book’s cultural vision can certainly attract a much wider readership. This book fills the gap in the field of comprehensive research on the vernacular architecture in the Balkans. Written in English, it will hopefully eliminate language barriers. Nevertheless, these are not the only barriers the book attempts to break.
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Hrčak ID:
213786
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2018.
Posjeta: 1.166 *