From Shelters to Dwellings

From Shelters to Dwellings
Author: Ayham Dalal
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2022-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839458382

In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation. He draws on the tension between 'the shelter' and 'the dwelling' to unravel how new spaces unfold in between them, where refugees become architects and the camp is dismantled and reassembled. From Shelters to Dwellings is the first study to uniquely combine ethnographic observations with new architectural research methods, to illustrate in detail how refugees inhabit shelters. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how camps and shelters are transformed by the powerful act of dwelling.

Shelter

Shelter
Author: Lloyd Kahn
Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0936070110

Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses. The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.

Dwelling in Possibility

Dwelling in Possibility
Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: Bauhan Pub
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780872331679

The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield's attention is that some houses have lifeare home, are dwellings, and others aren't. Dwelling, he says, is an old-fashioned word that we've misplaced. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to a place, we dwell. Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our home places. This lost quality of dwellingthe soul of buildingshaunts most of our houses and our landscape. Dwelling in Possibility is a search for the ordinary qualities that make some houses a home, and some public places welcoming.

Wigwams, Longhouses and Other Native American Dwellings

Wigwams, Longhouses and Other Native American Dwellings
Author: Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486433271

From adobe pueblos in the Southwest to a Chippewa birch bark wigwam in the Northeast — this carefully researched coloring book spotlights a wide array of Native American dwellings. Fact-filled captions accompany each detailed drawing. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties
Author: Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1992
Genre: Buildings, Temporary
ISBN: 9780936070131

Written and illustrated in 1914 by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, this primer contains detailed directions for constructing a wide range of shelters--including a complete log cabin. 338 illustrations.

Microshelters

Microshelters
Author: Derek Diedricksen
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-09-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1612123546

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a microshelter of your own. You’ll also find guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable and easy to inhabit.

Houses of Bark

Houses of Bark
Author: Bonnie Shemie
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1990
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780887762468

Describes the materials, construction, and uses of different kinds of shelters made by various Woodland Indians tribes in northeastern Canada and the United States.

Houses of Snow, Skin and Bones

Houses of Snow, Skin and Bones
Author: Bonnie Shemie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1993-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780887763052

Describes the construction materials and methods used by the Inuit to build different types of shelters suitable to their environment.

6,000 Years of Housing

6,000 Years of Housing
Author: Norbert Schoenauer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393730524

"Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward looking, ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently, these dwelling types survived in indigenous urban house forms in the Islamic world, India, China, and the Iberian peninsula and Latin America. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, however, outward-looking house forms replaced the ancient form in most of Europe and the New World.