vernacular architecture

vernacular architecture (countable and uncountable, plural vernacular architectures)

1. (architecture) A class of architectural styles which meet local needs, use local construction materials and reflect local traditions.
   • 2000, Michael Ann Williams, Larry Morrisey, “Chapter 9: Constructions of Tradition: Vernacular Architecture, Country Music, and Auto-Ethnography”, in Sally Ann McMurry, Annmarie Adams, editors, People, Power, Places, University of Tennessee Press, page 161:

     Vernacular architecture scholars have increasingly studied the products of automobile tourism, although often with a wink of the eye or with tongue planted in cheek.

   • 2006, Fred Gray, Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, Reaktion Books, page 147:

     To be bathed in, however, the sea also had to be entered, and Western countries developed a range of alternative vernacular architectures designed to provide access to the ocean.

   • 2015, G. D. Carlos, M. R. Correia, S. Rocha, P. Frey, “Vernacular architecture?”, in Mariana R. Correia, Paulo B. Lourenço, Humberto Varum, editors, Seismic Retrofitting: Learning from Vernacular Architecture, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 11:

     The first challenge to encounter, when addressing a comprehensive understanding of the vernacular architecture problematic, is to try to understand the etymological sense and the epistemological mean of the term. This paper intends to approach the evolution of the ‘vernacular architecture’ designation, and to reflect about its current conceptual application, considering its most substantial ideological divergences over time.

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