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026253150X Every child has felt the magic of a rainstorm from beneath a rickety porch roof, or some [...]
026253150X Every child has felt the magic of a rainstorm from beneath a rickety porch roof, or some makeshift structure. In this passionately written melange of autobiography and architectural criticism, Cline describes growing up in and later building structures that would re-create the experience of being barely protected from the big world outside. She begins by quoting work from different cultures that reflect nature as experienced from hut-like structures, as in these lines from ninth-century Chinese poet Po Chu-i: "Already I feel that both in the courtyard and house/ Day by day a fresher air moves. / But most of all I love, lying near the window-side, / To hear in their branches the sound of the autumn wind." Cline has long been interested in the Japanese tea ritual, and the tea hut became the model for Cline's structures. 176 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day!
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