Stone Shelters
Stone Shelters
Edward Allen
The MIT Press, June 1969
Hardcover | 7 x 10 inches | 213 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0262010276
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Numerous photographs, scaled maps, and drawings trace the development of this vernacular architecture from the Stone Age to the present.
Professor Edward Allen was a faculty member in the MIT Department of Architecture from 1968 to 1983.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
Although it wasn't picked up in architectural journals until this week, longtime MIT professor Edward Allen died on July 7 at the age of 81. Allen was best known for authoring or co-authoring ten architecture books, most of them on the technical aspects of building materials and construction and geared to architecture students. I don't own any of these seminal books, such as Fundamentals of Building Construction, which is now in its seventh edition, but I do have a copy of his first book, Stone Shelters, which came out of a Fulbright research grant he received in 1966. With the grant he traveled to Italy and studied the traditional buildings of Massafra, Alberobello, and Cisternino, documenting them in photographs and producing drawings of the trulli and other stone structures populating the towns. The semester I spent in Italy more than 25 years ago had a small Tuscan hilltown as its base but included trips to Rome, Venice, and other parts south and north. Unfortunately, the small remote towns of Allen's study were not part of our excursio...
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