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Tag Archives: vernacular architecture
Interview: Traditional Home Builder Devin P. Rutkowski
The retention of vernacular architectural practices maintains a place’s connection to its past. It also informs the direction it charts into the future. I’m currently living in a small town in Florida—Sarasota—that has had its share of troubles during a growth process that has seen disparate vernacular styles such as Florida Cracker and the Sarasota School emerge, prosper, decline, and slowly reemerge. A new crop of craftsmen/builders are reviving traditional design, including Devin P. Rutkowski, founder and president of Bungalow Builders, LLC.
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Posted in architecture, Culture, History, Interview, Josh Grigsby, Local Inspiration, Placemaking, Sarasota, urban design, urban planning, vernacular architecture, What if?
Tagged Arts & Crafts, bungalow builders, Craftsman, Devin Rutkowski, durable design, Florida Cracker, green building, historic homes, mass production, mixed-use, New Urbanism, pedestrianism, planologie interview, Sarasota bungalows, Sarasota School, suburban design, sustainable building, TND, traditional homes, Traditional Neighborhood Design, vernacular architecture
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Tibetan Traditional Architecture: The Vernacular Under Fire
Tibet has produced one of the world’s most unique and easily-recognizable forms of architecture. Nevertheless, systematic study of Tibetan architecture is still a comparatively unexplored field. Tibetan construction activities can be traced back over 1300 years, when the first Buddhist temples were built in central Tibet. One of these, the Lhasa Jokhang, still exists and yields important information about the origins and early development of Tibetan architecture (see architectural history of the Lhasa Jokhang).
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Posted in Culture, History, Placemaking, Sustainability, Uncategorized, vernacular architecture, walkable
Tagged Bhutan, Buddhist temples, China, Disneyfication, endangered regional design, flat roofs, Himalayan landscape, India, Indian architecture, interior timber frame, Ladakh, Lhasa Jokhang, modernization, Mongolia, Nepal, organic design, Pakistan, Potala Palace, sustainable architecture, Tibet Heritage Fund, Tibetan architecture, trapezoidal form, UNESCO world heritage site, vernacular architecture
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3 Houses That Fit Their Climate Perfectly
Like all architects and designers I share a common curiosity about the innards of products, which often leads me to dissecting and disassembling them. I recently found sketches I had made of houses and their sections while visiting parts of India characterized by extreme climates. I revisited those sketches, this time looking through a lens of sustainability and environmental sensitivity.
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Shapes of Everyday Life
Vernacular architecture is traditional architecture. It gives a visible face and functional core to local patterns, ethnic and regional character. In our efforts to read this character through the everyday buildings around us, we look for recurring meaningful patterns. Traditions in vernacular architecture may last for generations, but they do change over time as social, economic and technological conditions change. To follow these changeable patterns, researchers have sorted vernacular buildings into sets of types, based on form, which demonstrate their evolution across time and space.
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Posted in Culture, History, Local Inspiration, Neighbors, vernacular architecture
Tagged architectural style, architectural type, Boonslick, Bootheel, Colonial Revival, cultural identity, Georgian, Gothic, Greek Revival, Howard Wight Marshall, international commerce, Little Dixie, Main Street, Mission Revival, Missouri, Missouri Folklore Society, regional character, Rhineland, symbolism, traditional architecture, vernacular architecture, Williamsburg
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3 Stories About Regional Architecture
Over at Inventing Green, Alexis Madrigal looks at the adoption of air-conditioners. He talks about how the rise of electrical cooling seems to have lead to a crash in regional building techniques.
“Of course, the use of air conditioning allowed homeowners to enjoy a new degree of comfort, but a goodly portion of the residential air-conditioning load simply replaced the comfort once provided — at little environmental cost — by good design,” Rome writes.
The whole thing put me in mind of three incidents that highlight the critical importance of a regional context in usable architecture. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Livability, Personal Experiences, vernacular architecture
Tagged Alexis Madrigal, British Columbia, Canada, contextual sensitivity, Dalhousie, Earth Rangers Wildlife Center, Halifax, imported design, insulation, Inventing Green, Killam Library, LEED, Ontario, Quiet Babylon, regional architecture, regional building techniques, regional context, Salt Spring Island, thoughtful design, Tim Maly, vernacular architecture
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