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Ms. Tayona, a keen observer of vernacular architecture styles, noticed that many Southern Ontario farmhouses come in two pieces.
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Vernacular architecture is a way to use a region's heritage and resources to build strong homes and cities. Angely Mercado Oct 16, 2021 9:00 AM EDT ...
There comes a point in every era where one can look back and identify the dominant hegemonic residential aesthetic of the past decade, and, in the case of the 2010s, the aesthetic in question was ...
In his 1964 book, Architecture Without Architects, Bernard Rudofsky asserted that "architectural history as we know it ... amounts to little more than a who's who of architects who commemorated power, ...
Architect Marc Thorpe has revealed designs for a cabin hotel in Romania, featuring off-grid wooden lodges informed by rural vernacular architecture. Called Canton House, the project is designed to ...
Although the resulting architecture appears complex, its foundation lies in familiar proportions and vernacular forms. Its uniqueness emerges from the interplay of these shapes and their contrast with ...
Rudofsky introduced the term "vernacular architecture" to describe what he called "non-pedigreed architecture" - the houses and settlements of people who have no special claim to power or privilege.