Arts, design, architecture & planning
The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions
By Brandon Clifford, associate professor of architecture
ORO Editions · 2021
Bridging the realities of our ancestors and ourselves, this book proposes a series of architectural "recipes" after dining on a body of past expertise. Recipes are deciphered from ancient cyclopean masonry systems, but with a contemporary twist; they cannibalize leftover debris - building rubble that typically stuffs our landfills - to construct new buildings.
From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.
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