Vernacular Architecture

Vernacular Larchitecture is a name recovering the methods of Construction which use the available resources locally to meet the local needs. Vernacular architecture tends to evolve/move in time to reflect the environmental, cultural and historical context in which it exists. Often disparaged because one found it too simple and without refinement, it has also its partisans who stress his importance in the style of today.

Contrary to the planned architecture of the architects, constructive knowledge in vernacular architecture is often conveyed by the local traditions. It is based rather, but not only, on an empirical knowledge acquired through attempts and failures. It is generally transmitted from generation to generation rather than supported by the knowledge of the geometry and physics.

This of course does not want to say that certain architects do not use vernacular architecture in their designs or are not resolutely anchored in the vernacular architecture of their area. For the similarities with “traditional architecture” to see below.

Origins and definition

The term of vernacular comes from the Latin “ vernaculus ”, the district of the Esclave S behind the garden of the Master. In linguistics, vernacular refers to the particular language used in a time, in a place or by a group of people. In architecture, it refers to a type of architecture which is Indigène at one specific time or a precise besides place (and not imported or copied). Generally vernacular architecture is employed in the residential construction industry.

The term should not be confused with what is called in addition “traditional” architecture, though there are bonds between the two. Vernacular architecture can be adopted at certain times and refined in culturally accepted proposals, but only by its repetition it can become “traditional”. Traditional architecture can as well include for example Temple S and Palace S, which would not be usually catalogued in the “vernacular” heading. With the Japan for example, all pre-modern architecture is not “vernacular”, only the rural buildings and the structures would be it. To the the United States, vernacular architecture could correspond to the Bungalow S known as artisanal, with the mode at the 19th century, although the bungalow as an architectural form is not originating in the United States. In any case the use of the “vernacular” term remains ambiguous.

External bonds

Site of Pierreseche.com on vernacular architecture

and in detail the Vernacular Architecture of France by Christian Lassure

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