This is the big one! A follow up to his MoMA exhibit and book Architecture without Architects, this is far more comprehensive. Here Rudofsky is able to expand upon his point and really begin to express his general anti-cultural attitude (as perhaps expressed by the book's lengthy subtitle). Great stuff! Review - M. Grogan

THE PRODIGIOUS BUILDERS: Notes Toward a Natural History of Architecture

Science & Math

Bernard Rudofsky

Nature & Ecology

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The unfashionable human body

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

Van Nostrand-Reinhold Co.

"Of all the contradictory intelligence we have on foreign peoples, that on the Japanese is the most contradictory. Cliches utterly fail us: Frenchmen are frivolous, Italians are lazy, but what shall we make of the Japanese? They are at once geniuses and copycats, aesthetes and vulgarians: their politeness is as exquisite as their rudeness, their wisdom often indistinguishable from stupidity." So writes Bernard Rudofsky in The Kimono Mind, an appreciative and unsparing look at Japan by an unusually perceptive and intelligent traveler and student of life and human nature, who lived for two years with the Japanese, far from the tourist route. Mr. Rudofsky is at his happiest when he describes the modern Japanese ministering to their immemorial conceits, watching the ease with which they keep afloat in an atmosphere of total ambiguity. Surveying the wreckage of their glorious culture and the giddy civilization they are building on it, he observes, "Anybody who wants to study Americanization had better go to Japan these days." Austrian-born Bernard Rudofsky has been living intermittently in New York since 1935. His books reflect persuasions gained during more than half a century of worldwide travels and residence in a dozen countries. Architect, engineer, critic and a Ford, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Rudofsky has held professorships in art and architecture here and abroad. His books include Architecture Without Architects, The Prodigious Builders, Streets for People, The Unfashionable Human Body, and Now I Lay Me Down To Eat.

The Kimono Mind: An Informal Guide to Japan and the Japanese

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Streets for People: A Primer for Americans

O/s soft cover. First Van Nostrand Reinhold Edition. First published in 1969 by Doubleday &amp; Company, Inc. "This book is dedicated to the unknown pedestrian"

Architecture without Architects

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Academy Edns.

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