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Vernacular Architecture
ver-NAK-yuh-lur
Also Known As Folk Architecture
Building Tradition
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Building without architects: the local traditions by which most of the world's buildings have always been made, from local materials, by local builders, refined by generations of use. Igloo, yurt, courtyard house and timber barn each encode a climate and a way of life, and modern sustainable design returns constantly to their lessons.
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Both treat a site's local character, history and topography as generative of design; Aldo Rossi's Neo-Rationalism linked genius loci explicitly to vernacular and typological form.
Sustainable design returns constantly to vernacular climate lessons.
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Critical regionalism draws on vernacular building's climate and site responsiveness while rejecting pastiche imitation of it.
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