Stilt house from vernacular to contemporary architecture

Building on water may seem like a revolutionary idea , complex t ethnically and reminiscent of futuristic images of sophisticated amphibious structures. This book proposes a double vision: on the one hand, an analytic tica and synthesized tica look at the evolution of this typology in its vernacular state and then, in a second part, it delves into the imaginary of architects and designers who have been inspired by this architecture on stilts when designing their buildings.143 p.: photo, coll., plants and sections, 22 x 22 cm, paperback