How Much House Travel plainly spoken and richly illustrated

plainly spoken and richly illustrated with a great number of archival photographs and drawings (color and black and white) that document the building and give the reader a true architectural promenade through the work of a master American architect

and bold fields of color to transform the humble cable into a subject for experimental graphic design

Written in 1937

Nick Aitken travels the world researching the history of the craft

namely that of mountains

How Much House Travel plainly spoken and richly illustratedThoreau, Le Corbusier and the Sustainable Cabin by Urs Peter Flckiger Pub Birkhauser How much house does a man need? The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in a self built hut in the forest from 1845 1847. In 1952, Le Corbusier built a hut at the Cte d'Azur for himself and his wife. Inspired by this, Urs Peter Flckiger, together with his students, built an ecologically and