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 Response…………………………………….37
3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 39
Part One People – Improving the Human Condition Through Design ………………………………………………. 49
4 Finding patterns within the local building culture, and preserving the continuity of
tradition through participatory housing and community development……………………………….. 51
5 Facing the challenge of a framework approach………………………………………………………………. 61
6 Rewriting history through architecture …………………………………………………………………………. 75
Part Two Locale – Interpreting and Accommodating Characteristics of an Evolving Landscape …………….. 91
7 Embracing the urban contradictions of a border zone……………………………………………………… 93
8 Overpainting sprawl as a sustainable landscape ……………………………………………………………. 108
Part Three Environment – Appropriate Technologies and Design Tied to the Dynamics of Place………….. 125
9 A poverty of resources/a richness of expression…………………………………………………………….. 127
10 Celebrating and safeguarding the environment through residential design……………………….. 146
11 Architecture of response rather than imposition …………………………………………………………… 159
Index……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….179