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Shack Therapy: Australian Rogue Architecture
by Michael Bogle and Virginia Buckingham
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About the book
Shack Therapy
Shack Therapy explores the Australian shack as an architecture of improvisation, freedom, and pleasure. Often built beyond the reach of formal planning, building codes, and conventional construction, shacks emerge as opportunistic assemblages of found materials, makeshift techniques, and accidental solutions. At once fragile and inventive, they test the limits of what architecture can be. The book also examines the shack as a space of retreat and sensuality: informal, slightly disreputable, and removed from the censorious gaze of post-colonial society. Through insightful analysis and rich Australian imagery, Shack Therapy traces a culture of building that is vernacular, unruly, and deeply tied to landscape and leisure.
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Explores the Australian shack as an improvised and often unauthorized form of vernacular architecture
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Connects architecture with landscape, leisure, sensuality, and alternative ways of living
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Brings together architectural and design history with a rich visual survey of Australian shack culture
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Details
- Publisher
- JOVIS
- Authors
- Michael Bogle, Virginia Buckingham
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Jun 15, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9783986123789
- ISBN-10
- 3986123784
- Pages
- 160
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Shack Therapy for groups: pricing
Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $22.90 | 21% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $22.03 | 24% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $21.74 | 25% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $20.87 | 28% off list |
| 1,000+ | $20.29 | 30% off list |
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