What is Vernacular Architecture? According to its etymology, “verna” means native and “architecture” is to design buildings, thus vernacular architecture is an architecture style that is built to meet the present needs, keeping in mind the local climate, culture, and materials.....
Manuel Herz foi escolhido para projetar uma expansão de tijolos treliçados curvilíneos do Hospital Tambacounda, na zona rural do Senegal.
What is Vernacular Architecture? It's a big word, but its meaning is simple. We take a look at this approach to architecture and lessons we can learn from it.
ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS Although natural building today can be understood as a wave of rejection towards conventional architecture and its practice, as a political and social movement, we c…
Image 9 of 9 from gallery of What is Vernacular Architecture?. Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, Morocco, inspired by vernacular techniques and materials. © Dan Glasser
Nine homes using different natural materials demonstrating their culture, versatility and longevity.
Hey all I am in the University of Limerick, in my Final Year of a 4yr course. For my Final Year Project I am going to investigate Irish Thatch Cottages or sometimes called Vernacular Cottages / Vernacular Architecture. I am planning on both writing a written report on the impact of these houses on Rural
An exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, explores the architecture and cultural identity of sub-Saharan Africa
Children Village, a new school complex on the edge of the rainforest in northern Brazil designed by Brazilian architects, Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum, has..
Read on to discover a selection of original ArchDaily articles highlighting indigenous knowledge systems and their impact on current architectural practices.
Observing the vernacular architecture of southern Africa As we travel through southern Africa, a few things that always draw my attention. Among them: plants of any kind, bridges of almost any kind, cemeteries, and architecture
Completed in 2014 in Ngwesaung, Myanmar. Images by Julia Raff. The new high school project was developed in cooperation with the German NGO Projekt Burma. It is financed by donations and all participants involved...
Natura Nova embraces ecological sustainability, incorporating traditional techniques in novel ways and highlights self-supplying materials.
Der südafrikanische Designer Porky Hefer ist als leidenschaftlicher Anhänger von traditionellen Bautechniken und Naturmaterialien bekannt. Dabei lässt er sich von den Tieren inspirieren. Seine neueste Kreation, ein luxuriöses Strohhaus in der Wüste Namibias, ist die Essenz seiner bisherigen Arbeit als Designer. Schon als Kind war Porky Hefer von der Tierwelt fasziniert. Zusammen mit seinem Vater […]
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"Vernacular architecture can be said to be 'the architectural language of the people' with its ethnic, regional and local 'dialects,'" writes Paul...
An invigorating take on vernacular architecture and its psychological effects comes in the form of 20 exquisite cottages in Gir Vihar. A very interesting feature of this design is the community dining space under the hexagonal roof with a spiral column of bricks which apart from being a characteristic structure visually, brings a sense of social bonding. This bonding also extends to contextual references of untouched uncut mango trees, triangular roofs and locally available rubble stone packed foundation. It gives moments of unhindered interaction between wild and the world making it an unforgettable experience. With such a stimulating environment, could such designs give the template driven modernist high-rise blocks of living a gradual cease?
In our modern vernacular, the phrase "that's just semantics" has somehow become shorthand to insinuate the speaker has argued something trivial or unimportant. But what does it really mean?
Granary, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
As architects we love to use them, and as students we need to learn them; Architectural terms are firmly embedded in our language and are used daily in most
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This first dedicated and cohesive book on Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89) compiles an exhaustive amount of diverse material on the modernist architect known for his work developing tradition
These shelter structures are beautifully sculptural.
"Most of what I know about Australia I learned from Finding Nemo."
Bogan, bludger, ocker - there are some downright weird Australian slang words. Learn the meanings of some Aussie phrases, from a local.
Image 17 of 32 from gallery of How to Use Earthy Tones in Architecture: From the Vernacular to the Contemporary. Geology Museum / Estudio MMX. Image: © Dane Alonso
1. Pan Am’s First Office, now a bar owned by the actress from Top Gun The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity’s microbrewery in Key West Florida. Find out more about it on Atlas Obscura. 2. A Femme Fatale’s Ring Gun In the early 1800s saw the height of…
It was Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma'dan, or 'Arabs of the marsh', lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open water. These little-known architectur
Con el fin de entender más a fondo el contexto social y la cultura que se desarrolla en torno a este tipo de viviendas ecoamigables, se rea...
Image 1 of 6 from gallery of Architecture is Human: But Beauty is Found Everywhere. "Image of El Molo Hut. Turkana, Kenya via Shutterstock
Discusses whether Out-of-Place Artifacts are evidence of a Lost Human or Ancient Anunnaki Alien Civilization
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Nos tocó otra vez Nigeria, actualizamos lo que hicimos en 2014. Mesquita Nacional de Abuja Mesquita Nacional de Abuja Mesquita Nacional de Abuja. Acceso principal Viviendas Viviendas Viviendas Museo Gobarau Minaretin Katsina Holy Cross Cathedral Kajuru Kajuru Castle Kajuru Catle Kanogate Kanogate Escuela en Makoko Escuela en Makoko Escuela en Makoko Escuela en Makoko Escuela en Makoko Escuela en Makoko montagne d'Ouarek Parlamento Nacional National Church of Nigeria en Abuja National Church of Nigeria en Abuja Estadio Nacional de Abuja Nigerian Communications Commission Playa en Lagos
