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description: 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 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.
language: English
title: On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History
publisher: The MIT Press