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LESSONS FROM VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

SUBMISSION 1 (REFERENCE LIST)

BOOKS

1. LESSONS FROM VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

- By Willi Weber and Simos Yannas

- 2014 Publication
- Published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- ISBN 13: 978-1-84407-600-0 (hbk)

Lessons from vernacular architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular
architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings.
The appropriate technical and social solutions provided by vernacular and traditional
architecture are analyzed in detail. International case studies focus on environmental
design aspects of traditional architecture in a broad range of climatic conditions and
building types.

2. INVITATION TO VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE - Guide To Study Of Ordinary

Buildings And Landscapes

- By Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley

- 1949 1st Edition
- Published by The University of Tennessee Press Knoxville
- ISBN 10: 1-57233-331-6

Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Cromley's Invitation to Vernacular Architecture does more
than invite us to study vernacular architecture; it shows us how to do it and what we can
learn from it. Linking vernacular architecture t the larger endeavor of material culture
studies, the authors argue that all human-made objects provide insights into the culture that
produced them. The researcher's challenge is to devise a strategy that will enable buildings
to reveal their history and meaning.

3. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

- By Henry Glassie
- Published in 2000
- Published by Indiana University Press
- ISBN 0-253-33756-9

Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a

career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural
analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative
 examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a
prime resource for the one who would write a democratic and comprehensive history.

4. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN THE PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAS

- By Christina T.Halperin and Lauren E.Schwartz

- Published in 2017
- Published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- ISBN: 978-1-138-64615-5

Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the

ancient past, where social relations and long-term history were created posthole by
posthole, brick by brick. This collection shifts attention away from the elite and monumental
architectural traditions of the region to instead investigate the creativity, subtlety and
variability of common architecture and the people who built and dwelled in them. At the
heart of this study of vernacular architecture is an emphasis on ordinary people and their
built environments, and how these everyday spaces were pivotal in the making and
meaning of social and cultural dynamics.

5. BUILT TO MEET NEEDS - Cultural Issues In Vernacular Architecture

- By Paul Oliver
- First Edition 2006
- Published by Elsevier Linacre House
- ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6657-2

The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in

particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have
contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver
brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe.
Some previously unpublished papers, as well as those only available in hard to find
conference proceedings, are brought together in one volume to form a fascinating reference
for students and professional architects, as well as all those involved with planning housing
schemes in their home countries and overseas
 ACADEMIC PAPERS

1. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

- International Icomos Symposium

- Plovdiv 1979

The definition of "Vernacular Architecture" being a subject of debate, the participants in this
symposium presented reports aimed at clarifying this notion, which often varieties from one
country to another, and at establishing criteria for choosing buildings and ensembles to
conserved.

2. THE CONSERVATION OF TRADITIONAL BUILDING METHODS

- Oxford Polytechnic Department of Town Planning

- Working Paper No. 60, 1982
- ICOMOS 7308

This article deals with traditional construction techniques in Africa and their importance in
the development of vernacular architecture. The author proposes to integrate some new
building processes into traditional methods in order to ensure their survival.

3. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND ITS ADAPTATION TO MODERN NEEDS

- International Icomos Conference,

- Plovdiv 1975, in " Monumentum" Vol. 15-16
- Sofia, 1977

Representatives of various European countries presented reports on the safeguarding of

vernacular architecture and on its adaptation, often problematic, to new functions. For,
despite successful experiences, the concept of adaptation implies the idea of a conflict
between the original function of the buildings and the transformations demanded by modern
life.

4. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

- International Icomos Meeting,

- Plovdiv 1978
- in " Monumente Istorice si deArta" special issue, Bucharest, 1979

This meeting was devoted to the specific problem of the integration of vernacular
architecture into modern ensembles and there are also a number of typological and
historical studies of single buildings or rural ensembles in countries like Romania, Finland,
the United Kingdom, Hungary and Yugoslavia.
5. THE PROBLEMS POSED BY THE PROTECTION OF FOLK ARCHITECTURE

- 1st International Icomos Symposium,

- Bratislava 1971
- in " Monumentorum Tutela, Ochrana Pamiatok 9"

The reports given during one of the first Icomos international symposia deal primarily with
the cause for deterioration of vernacular architecture in different European countries, with
measures to be taken for its protection and with the principles to be respected in conserving
these buildings and ensembles. These are contributions on open air museums, in situ
conservation, and the functional transformations of constructions to be preserved.