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On Adam's House in Paradise, second edition The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History

9780262680363

On Adam's House in Paradise, second edition The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History

  • ISBN 13:

    9780262680363

  • ISBN 10:

    026268036X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 12/29/1981
  • Publisher: The MIT Press

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Summary

This new edition of On Adam's House in Paradise(first published by the Museum of Modern Art) incorporates all the original illustrations and several new ones, as well as additional text by the author. On Adam's House in Paradise"takes off backward through history hunting for Adam's house, the original image. En route, with wry wit and charm, Rykwert singes every generation of architectural theoreticians back to Vitruvius, but he manages to illuminate their efforts and their immolations."-Charles Moore, Progressive Architecture

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