Shawn Adams: ‘This book made me reconsider how I view architecture’
1/5 Cliff dwelling known as Montezuma Castle , built and used by the Sinagua people, 1100-1425 AD
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2/5 Entire towns have been carved out of rock, above ground. The Göreme cones, in Cappadocia, Turkey, range from the size of a tent to a minor skyscraper with as many as 16 floors
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Shawn Adams reflects on the lessons of
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, by Bernard Rudofsky
As The Museum of Modern Art preface puts it: ‘Architecture Without Architects introduces the reader to communal architecture – that is architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting within a community of experience.’