Tilting

House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village
Princeton Architectural Press By Robert Mellin

7 x 9 in; 256 pp ; 150 color and 90 b/w
Paperback
Published in July, 2008
ISBN 9781568988078
ISBN10 1568988079

$24.95

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Tilting -- One of the best studies of vernacular architecture and winner of the prestigious Winterset Literary Award is now available in a paperback edition. Tilting is author Robert Mellin's personal account of the houses, outbuildings, furniture, tools, fences, docks, and way of life of a fishing village on a small island far off the Canadian coast. Part journal, part sketchbook, part oral history, Tilting is a treasure chest of a book that offers new discoveries with each reading and a reminder of the simpler aspects of life and building.

Robert Mellin is an associate professor at the School of Architecture at McGill University and a registered architect. He received the 2006 Paul E. Buchanan Award for excellence in fieldwork and interpretation from the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

Quotes

"Architecture provides the window through which the author studies the human graces of a community of people. The book is less about roof trusses and clapboard than it is about the poetry of inhabiting a particular piece of geography over centuries, spoken in the language of village architecture." —The Globe and Mail, 100 Best Books of 2003

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