- abstract architecture
- Adam
- African domestic architecture
- air-conditioners
- air-conditioning
- alignments
- alleys
- amphitheaters of Muyu-uray
- anachronistic communities
- ancient theater center
- anonymous architecture
- anonymous builders
- anthropomorphic
- anthropomorphic pillars
- apartment houses
- apartments
- aquatic architecture
- aqueducts
- arcaded gable-ends
- arcades
- arcades: provide shelter against the elements, protect pedestrians from traffic hazards, take the place of the ancient forums.
- arches
- architectural blight
- architectural eyries
- architectural history
- architectural inspiration
- architectural landscape
- architectural mimicry
- architectural monuments
- architectural nobility
- architectural object
- architectural prejudices
- architecture
- architecture á pilotis
- architecture by subtraction
- architecture by subtraction: carved entire towns out of live rock above ground.
- Architecture without Architects
- Ark
- art of building
- art of living
- astronomical instruments
- austerity
- awnings
- bad-gir
- bamboo poles
- banking houses
- baobab tree: of tropical Africa, sometimes reaches a diameter of 30 feet. Its wood being soft, live trees are often hollowed out and used as dwellings.
- bastion
- batteries
- battlefield
- bays
- beavers
- birth of architecture
- bogus vernacular
- bronze monuments
- builders
- bulldozer
- burial growns
- cabin
- Cain
- canals
- caravanserai
- caryatids
- caves
- celestial architecture
- cemeteries
- central plaza
- chaos
- chimera
- choice of site
- city dwellers
- Ciudad Encantada: the Enchanted City, about 120 miles east of Madrid, is a formation of cretaceous deposits covering 500 acres. Teh fantastic shapes, boldly cantilevered, are an astonishing sight and need no fanciful comparisons with architecture to be appreciated.
- classical vernacular
- cleanliness
- cliff-face dwellings
- climate
- columned halls
- commercial architecture
- communal architecture: Pietro Belluschi defined as a communal art not produced by a few intellectuals or specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting under a community of experience.
- communal organization
- community borders
- conic cupola crowned by a keystone
- conical houses
- conical rocks
- contoured playgrounds: a sculptor’s rather than an architect’s idea of how to improve on the surface of the land.
- covered streets
- covered walkways
- crater
- Creation
- cretaceous deposits
- dead ends
- decay
- defacement
- desert fortresses
- deserts
- detached huts
- deviation from standard measurements
- diving board
- Dogon architecture
- downtown
- durability
- dwellings
- earthquakes
- ecclesiastical buildings
- elasticity
- elevated platforms
- elevators
- empty baskets
- enclosed space
- enclosures
- engineering without engineers
- Enoch: town formed by Adam’s son Cain and named after his son Enouch. A one-family town, delightful as it sounds, is a most extravagant venture and surely was never repeated in the course of history. If it proves anything, it illustrates the breathtaking progress made within a single generation from the blessed hummingbird existence in well-supplied Paradise to the exasperatingly complicated organism that is a town.
- enternal mysteries
- espigueiros
- esthetics
- evolution of architecture
- exhibition
- exotic arts
- expert’s art
- eyries
- fairy-tale countries
- false gods
- family-size fortifications
- fasces
- fences
- ferris wheel
- fertilizer plants
- fire escape
- fire-proof
- fishing stations
- fishing town
- fishing village
- flat-roofed dwellings
- flexible and movable structures
- flight of steps
- floor-heating
- formal architecture
- fortified places
- fortified villages
- fragmites communis
- free-standing buildings cut from live rock and hollowed out
- free-standing houses
- frugality
- function
- functionless
- galleries
- garbage cans
- garden
- garden walls
- general welfare
- Genesis
- geometric figures
- geometric screens of silk
- glacis
- glass blocks
- glass panels
- Gothic portals
- granaries
- grass structures
- Greek orchestra
- growth of a community
- hearth
- hedges
- hermitic strongholds
- high ceilings
- High Vernacular: the sophisticated minor architecture of Central Europe, the Mediterranean, South and East Asia.
- high water level
- highways
- hill town
- historical forms
- holiday encampment
- horreos
- hotels
- houseboats
- houses for the dead
- houses on wheels
- humaneness
- huts
- improvements
- Inca
- indigenous architecture
- industrial countries
- industrial man
- inner light
- intact
- interior courts
- interior passages
- interior staircases
- internal supports
- irregularity of terrain
- Islamic town
- Italian hill towns
- Kirdi hut
- labyrinths
- lagoon
- lagoons
- landscaping
- large granite slabs
- leaky roof
- lemon trees
- lesser people
- light control
- limonaie: terraced labyrinths, enclosed by high stone walls and guarded by ferocious dogs.
- living quarters
- local architecture
- loess: silt transported and deposited by the wind. Because of its great softness and high porosity, it can be easily carved.
- log cabins
- loggia
- loggie
- L-shaped hedges
- L-shaped staircases
- Machu Picchu
- marble monuments
- mason versus architect
- mats
- mechanical comfort
- megalithic civilizationtalyots
- menhirs
- merchant princes
- Middle Ages
- minarets
- moats
- model hill town
- modern architects
- modular building components
- monastic community
- monotony
- Monte Albon
- monumentality
- Mount Athos
- mountain peak
- movable architecture
- mud brick
- multistoried apartments
- Museum of Modern Art
- narrow alleys of broken course
- narrow sandbank
- natural cave
- natural setting
- natural surroundings
- nature as architect
- Noah
- noble architecture
- nomadic architecture
- nomads
- non-classified architecture
- non-formal architecture
- nonpedigreed architecture
- nuraghe
- oases
- official architecture
- old-world communities
- one-family town
- open plan
- Ordek’s necropolis
- organic forms
- orthodox architectural history: the emphasis is on the work of the individual architect.
- overhanging rock
- pagodas
- parabolic arches
- Paradise
- parapluie
- parked cars
- parking lots
- parochialism
- passages
- patrician houses
- pavilions: the magnificent structures that have been the pride of the monarchs of Western Asai for thousands of years, fabrications huge in size, very costly, and even if not permanent, often of extraordinary beauty.
- peasant houses
- penny arcade
- penthouses
- pergola
- peripheral walls
- permanent roofs
- picture-postcard towns
- picturesque
- piers
- pigeon towers
- pigeoncots
- pigeonry
- pile dwellings
- platforms
- polemic
- pomp
- poplar posts
- popular architecture
- portable houses
- portable roofs
- portici
- pre-Columbian
- prefabrication
- prehistoric stone monuments
- prehistoric towns
- primeval forms
- primeval vault
- primitive
- primitive architecture
- primitive builders
- primitive technology
- princes
- prismatic towers
- protected balconies
- protective walls
- proto-industrial architecture: includes water wheels, windmills, bot vertical and horizontal, and dovecots, those vital fertilizer plants.
- pup tent
- quadrangular houses
- quasi-sacral
- quasi-sacral architecture
- railroad station
- ramping segmented vaults
- relaxation
- resort
- restoration
- rocky overhangs
- rope ladder
- rude architecture
- rudimentary architecture
- rugged country
- rural architecture
- sail vault
- sail vaults
- sculpted architecture
- sculptors’ competition
- sculptural chimneys
- sculpture
- secret chambers
- security
- semicovered streets: less sturdy than arcades but gayer and more airy are the lacy coverings that are the delight of oriental streets and courtyards. Their shadow-plays are staged with simple means: canopies of trellises, mats, nets, or vines are turned to good account for distilling the raw sunlight into a sort of optical liquer.
- sesi
- shapes of houses
- sidewalks
- Simeon the Stylite
- sites of difficult access
- skeletal architecture
- skeleton structure
- sled-houses
- sliding walls
- small windows
- small-capacity granaries
- space
- space time
- spires
- split level house
- spontaneous architecture
- spring water
- square towers
- stalagmitic towers
- standardization of building components
- stationary battleship
- stone monoliths
- stone rubble
- stone slabs
- storage fortress
- storage towers
- storehouse for food
- storehouses
- straw-hatted houses
- straw-mat
- street coverings: provide a tangible expression of civic solidarity or of philanthropy.
- streets
- streets fit for humans
- structural elements
- stylistic purity
- sublime
- subterranean towns
- suburban man
- superb landscape
- super-fortress
- symbolic vernacular
- teahouse
- tent
- tent structure
- tentlike structures
- tents
- terraced mountain top
- terraces
- thatch
- thatch roof
- Theraen house: rectangular cell with barrel vault, on which another identical unit is often superimposed.
- threshing floors
- topography
- torii: a kind of square arch, accessory to Shinto shrines,
- Tower of Babel
- Tower of Smarra
- town
- town square
- town structures
- traffic lights
- travel guide
- tree-house
- troglodyte dwellings
- troglodytic town of Patalica
- troglodytism: people who prefer to live below ground.
- true gods
- trulli
- Turkish bathhouse
- turrets
- twigs
- typology
- ugliness
- underdeveloped countries
- underground village
- unit architecture
- unity and diversity
- unsawed tree trunks
- untutored builders
- uptown
- urbanite
- urbs: walled town.
- utopian
- vacant spaces
- vaulted ceiling
- vaulted ceiling carved into the soil
- vaulted ceilings: impart a sense of comfort.
- vaulted cell
- vaulted roof
- vaults
- vegetal roofs
- vermin-proof
- vernacular architecture
- vernacular forms
- vernacular Japanese architecture
- vernacular virtuosity
- versatility
- vertiginous flights of steps
- villas
- vineyard
- viniculture
- volcanic crater
- volta a vela
- walls
- warfare
- water pipes
- water wheel
- waterfront
- Western world
- whitewashed
- wind screens: In Japan they may shield, indeed, envelop a house, a hamlet, or an entire village.
- windscoops
- witches rings: where certain mushrooms grow in perfect circles
- wood in vernacular architecture
- workshop
- woven matting
- woven palaces
Source Citation
Rudofsky, Bernard. Architecture Without Architects. New York City, New York: Museum of Modern Art. 1965.