Trulli Houses by Vernacular at GreatBuildings

Architect

Vernacular

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Location

Alberobello, Italy

Building Type

handmade houses

Construction System

stone masonry with conical vaults

Climate

mediterranean

Context

village or rural

Style

Rural Italian Vernacular

Notes

see Ed Allen, Stone Shelters. Vernacular

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Sources on Trulli Houses

Edward Allen. Stone Shelters. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. exterior photo of street scene, f30, p114. exterior photo of plastered dome, f10, p94. aerial photo of town, f28, p112. exterior photo of building in disrepair showing construction, f2, p86.

Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. plan and section, p216. see also, Trulli farmhouse plan and section p232, and exterior perspective drawing, p375. — A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com

Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1841.077

Sybyl Moholy-Nagy. Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture. Horizon Press Inc, 1957. diagrammatic section, p28, plate3.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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