An Immemorial Celtic Wind
In An Immemorial Celtic Wind, Dan M. Talbott tells an ambiguous personal history of half-timbered architecture through a collage of historical and popular texts. Shifting from memories of the author’s childhood home to passages drawn from antique trade journals, lost blog posts, and hyper-nationalist architectural screeds, this slim volume provides an richly opaque narrative of one of the West’s most recognizable (and least understood) architectural idioms. While Talbott’s thesis remains elusive, we watch on as the four horsemen of history, identity, style, and building technology emerge from the darkened plumes of primeval Europe to spread across the suburbs of America. Throughout, Talbott plies myth and meaninglessness to implicitly position Tudoresque as the Neofolk of domestic architecture in this small, copiously illustrated, and red-inked text.
In An Immemorial Celtic Wind, Dan M. Talbott tells an ambiguous personal history of half-timbered architecture through a collage of historical and popular texts. Shifting from memories of the author’s childhood home to passages drawn from antique trade journals, lost blog posts, and hyper-nationalist architectural screeds, this slim volume provides an richly opaque narrative of one of the West’s most recognizable (and least understood) architectural idioms. While Talbott’s thesis remains elusive, we watch on as the four horsemen of history, identity, style, and building technology emerge from the darkened plumes of primeval Europe to spread across the suburbs of America. Throughout, Talbott plies myth and meaninglessness to implicitly position Tudoresque as the Neofolk of domestic architecture in this small, copiously illustrated, and red-inked text.