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The shell builders : tabby architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands /

"Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching bac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooker, Colin (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rowland, Lawrence Sanders (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 1 4 |a The shell builders :  |b tabby architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands /  |c Colin Brooker ; foreword by Lawrence S. Rowland. 
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505 0 |a Old World Antecedents and Their Diffusion -- Tabby in Military Building of the Southeast Atlantic Coast -- Tabby Making: Materials and Fabrication -- Tabby Construction Details and Operational Procedures -- Tabby Brick, Wattle and Daub, and Cements -- Tabby Building in Beaufort Town, South Carolina -- Tabby in the Domestic Architecture of the Sea Islands before the American Revolution -- Slave Dwellings, Settlements, and the Quest for Rural Improvement -- Workplaces and Gardens: Processing and Storage Facilities -- Chapels and Cemeteries -- Epilogue: A Legacy of the Loyalists? Tabby in the Bahamas. 
520 |a "Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even African roots-brought to the United States by adventurers, merchants, military engineers, planters, and the enslaved. Tabby has been preserved most abundantly in the Beaufort area and its outlying islands, (and along the Sea Islands all the way to Florida as well) with Fort Frederick in 1734 having the earliest example of a diverse group of structures, which included town houses, seawalls, planters' homes, barns, agricultural buildings, and slave quarters. Tabby's insulating properties are excellent protection from long, hot, humid, and sometimes deadly summers; and on the islands, particularly, wealthy plantation owners built grand houses for themselves and improved dwellings for enslaved workers that after two hundred-plus years still stand today. An extraordinarily hardy material, tabby has a history akin to some of the world's oldest building techniques and is referred to as "rammed earth," as well as " tapia" in Spanish, "pisé de terre" in French, and "hangtu" in Chinese. The form that tabby construction took along the Sea Islands, however, was born of necessity. Here stone and brick were rare and expensive, but the oyster shells that were used as the source for the tabby's lime base were plentiful. Today these bits of shell, often visible in the walls and forms constructed long ago, give tabby its unique and iconic appearance. Colin Brooker, architect and expert on historic restoration, has not only made an exhaustive foray into local tabby architecture and heritage; he also has made a multinational tour as well in search of tabby origins, evolution, and diffusion from the Bahamas to Morocco to Andalusia, which can be traced back as far as the tenth century. Brooker has spent more than thirty years investigating the origins of tabby, its chemistry, its engineering, and its limitations. The Shell Builders lays out a sweeping, in-depth, and fascinating investigative journey-at once archaeological, sociological, and historical-into the ways prior inhabitants used and shaped their environment in order to house and protect themselves, leaving behind an architectural legacy that is both mysterious and beautiful"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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