北米の古き良き納屋の歴史にはじまり、機能とデザインを豊富な写真とともに解説した書籍です。

If you're on property with a fine old barn, or if you're interested in the techniques and history of North America's finest (grandest) framing system (inherited from 3,000 years of practical Northern Europeans), The Barn is worth maybe having and certainly viewing.
The book is excellent on the matter of taxonomy: Dutch barns, English barns, Pennsylvania barns, Connected barns, Polygonal barns, etc. Excellent also on history: barn design is traceable to upturned Iron Age ships and to ancient Basilican churches. The authors are "architectural" in their aesthetic appreciation; they pay due attention to the agricultural functioning and design innovations of various barns; they are less instructive about the dynamics of evolution in this splendidly vernacular and diverse medium. Happily, they cover the extraordinary barns of eastern Canada as well as northeastern U.S. The barns of the Deep South and Western States are not well explored.
The major resource in the book is scads of glorious photographs, many in color, many of fine structural detail.
[Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Epilog p.512]

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Part1. The Barn
Part2. The Barn in North America
Part3. The Decorative Arts
Part4. The Barn in Detail

出版年：1972年
言語：英語
ページ数：256ページ
サイズ：27cm×30cm×2.5cm

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