Anomaly

Moving day in Vietnam. From Bernard Rudofsky’s book “Architecture without Architects”, 1964.

“Many so-called primitive peoples deplore our habit of moving (with all of our belongings) from one house, or apartment, to another. Moreover, the thought of having to live in rooms that have been inhabitated by strangers seems to them as humiliating as buying second hand old clothes for one’s wardrobe. When they move, they prefer to build new houses or to take their old ones along.”

Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture is a book based on the NYC MoMA exhibition of the same name by Bernard Rudofsky originally published in 1964. It provides a demonstration of the artistic, functional, and cultural richness of vernacular architecture.

Prades, the Village, 1917, Joan Miro