Handmade Architecture. Traditions of Folk Architecture

Student: Voynova Alyona

Educational Programme: Design (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

The book as part of the final qualifying work is implied as a popular science publication for parents and their children. The author aims to arouse curiosity in history, architecture and geography through the prism of national historical architecture. Great emphasis is placed on the geographical aspect, which in turn allows us to identify the relationship between the appearance of the building, the way of life of people and the prevalence of a particular housing structure in the world. The two main themes of the book are stationary and mobile homes of the peoples of the world. As a result, there is a third part, which describes how the traditions of national housing in the modern world exist or are being transformed. The publication gives a voluminous idea of the traditions of housing development of small nations and the relationship of man with nature. The composition of the final qualifying work includes: visual research and the book.

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