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Vernacular Architecture in 21st century – Theory, education and practice

Contents List of illustration credits ix List of contributors xi Preface xv Foreword xvii Nezar AlSayyad Introduction 1 Lindsay Asquith and Marcel Vellinga Part I The vernacular as process 21 1 Building tradition: control and authority in vernacular architecture 23 Simon J. Bronner 2 Endorsing indigenous knowledge: the role of masons and apprenticeship in sustaining […]

Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design_ Cultural Process and Environmental Response

Contents Dedication …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………vii Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..ix Foreword: on the study of ‘regional architecture’ …………………………………………………………………..xi Preface – Regionalism reconsidered…………………………………………………………………………………….xiii List of illustrations……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. xvii Section One Exploring the Nature of Place …………………………………………………………………………..1 1 An interpretive model for assessing regional identity amidst change ……………………………………. 3 2 Architecture as cultural production………………………………………………………………………………. 22 Section Two From Regional Theory to a Situated Regional […]