Cereal Drying Racks. Culture and Typology of Wood Buildings in Europe and East Asia

"Cereal Drying Racks. Culture and Typology of Wood Buildings in Europe and East Asia" is a tribute to an agricultural tool manifested in architectures of all sizes and levels of complexity. Its wide distribution characterized landscapes and influenced lastingly the societies of the areas concerned. Due to its overwhelming importance for supply with staple food cereal drying racks' deep rootedness in people's awareness has resonated in all fields of cultural expression.

The collection of testimonies has been brought into a typological order allowing
to compare minutely the whole range of drying racks formerly common in Europe and East Asia. The balance of East Asian and European examples consequently pursued in text, illustrations and literature review are an outstanding characteristic of this encyclopedic work. Duotone photographs and precise line drawings allow later reevaluation even when the last examples have vanished. The book can be consumed as a picture book offering informative captions for readers interested in explanations. The text part should not leave open any questions to scientists looking for background information. This book offers a deep insight into men's comparable solution of comparable tasks whether in the Eastern or Western hemisphere following logic criteria independent of national or ideological borders.