The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives, broadening current debate to a wider multidisciplinary audience. These collected essays from the leading experts in the field focus on theory, education and practice in this essential sector of architecture, and help to formulate solutions to the environmental, disaster management and housing challenges facing the global community today.
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'A book with a mission ... the editor's pool of contributers include some of the most prominent writers ... It is both an edited collection of analytical essays and a rallying cry for vernacular architectural studies.' - The Journal of Architecture
'The numerous diverse opinions set out in this volume give the reader an excellent survey of the advantages and the problems of vernacular architecture, and the empoyment of good vernacular practice could evidently be a big help to construction in developing countries.' Architectural Science Review
Foreword Nezar AlSayyad Introduction Part 1: The Vernacular as Process
1. Building Tradition: Control and Authority in Vernacular Architecture
2.
Endorsing Indigenous Knowledge: The Role of Masons and Apprenticeship in
Sustaining Vernacular Architecture The Case of Djenne
3. Forms and Meanings
of Mobility: The Dwellings and Settlements of Sedentarised Irish Travellers
4. Engaging the Future: Vernacular Architecture Studies in the Twenty-First
Century Part 2: Learning from the Vernacular
5. Traditionalism and Vernacular
Architecture in the Twenty-First Century
6. Learning from the Vernacular:
Basic Principles for Sustaining Human Habitats
7. Lessons from the
Vernacular: Integrated Approaches and New Methods for Housing Research
8.
Sheltering from Extreme Hazards
9. A Journey through Space: Cultural
Diversity in Urban Planning Part 3: Understanding the Vernacular
10.
Vernacular Design as a Model System
11. 'Generative Concepts' in Vernacular
Architecture
12. The Future of the Vernacular: Towards New Methodologies for
the Understanding and Optimisation of the Performance of Vernacular Buildings
13. Architectural Education and Vernacular Building
14. Educating Architects
to become Culturally Sensitive
Lindsay Asquith worked with Paul Oliver on the compilation of the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (1997) and subsequently as a Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. She completed her PhD in 2003 and now works as an Architectural Design Consultant in the housing sector.
Marcel Vellinga is a Research Fellow in the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, England. He is the author of Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village (2004) and of various articles dealing with the anthropology of architecture in Indonesia. He is currently co-editing, with Paul Oliver, the Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World.
