Measure and Construction of the Japanese House Dune Botanicum is a wonderful feast

Botanicum is a wonderful feast of botanical knowledge complete with superb cross sections of how plants work

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Measure and Construction of the Japanese House Dune Botanicum is a wonderful feastA remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential buildings. With incredible detail (as well as numerous architectural plans and drawings), author and architect Heino Engel describes everything from room functions and the flexibility of partitions to the influence of human anatomy on Japanese units of measure. Rather than exploring why the traditional