• Frugality : considering an intimate modern 

  Tayyibji, R [Article-Full-text]

  This paper is an attempt to examine one of the strands of Indian modernity that does not subscribe to the industrial presupposition as the basis of its discourse. Rather this is a modernity situated in a paradigm that is ...
• Vernacular nautical architecture in transition: a case study of traditional Sri Lankan fishing craft 

  Devendra, S [Article-Full-text]

  This paper concerns the so-called “catamarans” often considered archetypal Sri Lankan craft. These are of great antiquity although their age can only be guessed. The vernacular form evolved from the available bio-resources ...
• Architectural Heritage & Urban Identity Between Nostalgia & Reality: The Case Of Bahrain 

  El-Masri, S [Article-Full-text]

  The rich architectural heritage of Bahrain has been subject to dilapidation and destruction as a result of rapid urbanisation and its complex physical, social and economic dimensions. The two major cities of Muharraq & ...
• The Grand And The Little Tradition: Tracing The Links Of Two Vernacular Building Types Of Sri Lanka 

  Chandrasekara, DP [Article-Full-text]

  It is accepted that there is a strong link between the vernacular architecture and the grand architecture traditions. The relationship between the two is studied and analyzed in different ways. The present day architectu ...
• Egypt's Vernacular Architecture, From Rural Settlement To Exotic Resorts 

  Sakr, MM [Article-Full-text]

  For millennia, the Nubians of Upper Egypt faced harsh climatic conditions and scarcity of building materials. Yet they succeeded in building their shelters by using mud bricks to build thick walls, arches, domes and vaults. ...
• Reinterpreting Vernacular As A Strategy For Capacity-Building In The Urbanizing South: Architecture & Labour Policy-Making 

  Pathiraja, M [Article-Full-text]

  Over the last 30 years, many countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have experienced a strong expansion of their urban economy, irreversible changes to their rural economy, an increase in urban land values, internal ...
• Creating New Vernacular: Re-Enacting Culture And Making Place In The Winter Camps Of Bahrain 

  Dayaratne, R [Article-Full-text]

  Vernacular in many parts of the world, particularly those that are rapidly developing under the forces of globalization have been undergoing dramatic change. From total abandonment to superficial reconstructions, vernacular ...
• Bordering On Vernacular-The Tradition Of The Oriyur Shrine 

  Thilagam, LT; Balasubramanian, V [Article-Full-text]

  The vernacular of a place is encoded in the architecture of the built form and enriched by the cultural practices of the people. This study explores the history and tradition of the Britto cult centered at the Shrine of ...
• Enhancing The Quality Of Life By Maintaining The Cultural Values And Vernacular Functional Spatial Features Of Malay Vernacular Residences 

  Hoseini, AG; Baharuddin, MN; Ibrahim, R; Dahlan, ND [Article-Full-text]

  The quality of contemporary residential functional spaces has been mostly based on style and modernity rather than the tradition of particular regional context. This has led to new buildings which are not based on the ...
• Designing The Vernacular: An Inquiry In The Processes Of Making In Kutch, India 

  Soni, S [Article-Full-text]

  As understood popularly, vernacular is not just a simplistic interaction between the climate, culture and craft, but rather a composite body of knowledge processes developed over generations of experience through trial and ...
• Analysing The Morphological Changes In Vernacular Domestic Architecture Of Kerala, India Since 1947 

  Bhooshan, BS; Kini, MK [Article-Full-text]

  This paper discusses morphological changes in the vernacular domestic architecture in Kerala since 1947 (Independence of India from colonial rule) and identify the changes and analyses the reasons ...
• Informal Structures: Vernacular Spatial Responses To The Industrial Corridor In Indonesia's Main Rice Producer Regency, Karawang West Java 

  Kurniawan, KR [Article-Full-text]

  Karawang Regency in West Java is one of Indonesian main rice producer regions whose economic activities growth rapidly. However, the concern of many people is that the development failed to anticipate the gap between ...
• Vernacular Architecture Inner Baduy Community In Cibeo Village As Representation Of Creativity And Innovation Responding To The Nature 

  Loupias, HH [Article-Full-text]

  Baduy traditional community consists of two groups, namely Inner Baduy and Outer Baduy. Inner Baduy people live in the restricted villages Cibeo, Cikertawana and Cikeusik, Banten province, Indonesia. They have a mystical ...
• New Machine Vernacular: Remote Building Devices, Digital/Cultural Accommodation, And Technology’s Renewed Humanitarian Agenda 

  Shaffer, M [Article-Full-text]

  Contemporary advancements in mobile technologies and computer-aided fabrication systems have signaled the plausibility of remote construction devices in our near future. Semi-autonomous building-making machines capable of ...
• The Traditional Courtyard House Of Central And Southern Sardinia: Methodological Hypothesis For The Typo Log I Cal And Performance Renovation Of “Casa Demurtas” In Escolca (Cagliari, Sardinia) 

  Scolaro, AM; Quattrone, G [Article-Full-text]

  The genius loci of vernacular architecture allows one to understand the intimate relationship which folk buildings establish with the site by responding to local environmental conditions1 . In its numberless expressions, ...
• Brunei Kampong Ayer: An Analysis Of The Structure And The Conditions Of 183 Evolution Of A Borneo Malay Urbanism 

  Leblanc, R [Article-Full-text]

  For the past 15 years Kampong Ayer, Brunei's famous water villages and former empire's capital has been left to decay slowly. Debates about its future are held far from its inhabitants and away from Brunei’s population ...
• The Sabarmati Story: Memory Of Water And Notions Of Place 

  Bharat, G; Khanwalkar, S [Article-Full-text]

  An eco-semiotic perspective explains how it exists and gets transformed in four stages: stage zero being wilderness, one - interpreting, identifying, describing, nature two - material interpretation, translation, and ...
• Weaving Architecture: A Study Of Women’s Role In The Vernacular Architecture 

  Ealdama, AC; Munoz, KAA; Pernia, MP [Article-Full-text]

  The aspect of gender in the study and analysis of vernacular architecture has often been overlooked for more popular categories such as methods of construction, motifs and ornamentation. But gender being in itself a social ...
• Exploring Local Wisdom In Approaching The Nature And Environment Of Space According To The Local Order And Image 

  Tulistyantoro, L [Article-Full-text]

  The local nature and the environment of a place are important factors in creating a work of architecture that matches the functions and image of its users. These factors are related to their context and become a separate ...
• The Roles Of Tradition And Vernacular In Post-Colonial Elite Domestic Architecture Of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 

  Wijetunge, NR [Article-Full-text]

  Following a brief stint of independent-rule from 1948 under a class of post-colonial third culture, a political breakthrough came in 1956, when a faction of local-elite with a strong nationalist agenda came into power in ...

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