Vernacular History Architecture

Vernacular Architecture is 'architecture without architects'. The term vernacular has been used interchangeably with the terms folk, common, native or non-academic architecture. Definitions often refer to its localised nature, use of traditional skills, use of locally produced building materials and absence of architects. All these points are debatable! There is, at the moment, an ongoing debate on the limits of vernacular architecture. Earlier, rural, pre-industrial buildings were the focus. Urban vernacular, industrial vernacular, and the use of vernacular idiom by architects are now all being considered.

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• Conference on Vernacular Architecture - Announcements and proceedings of the annual international conference in Slovenia.
  
• Vernacular Architecture of the World - Great Buildings Online describes a range of buildings in regional styles, and some designed by architects in Neo-Vernacular styles.
  
• International Vernacular Architecture Unit - This international centre within Oxford Brookes University hosts the Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library. Lists publications, research expertise and current research projects.
  
• Paul Oliver Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture - The world's first encyclopedia of the architecture of the people. Publication information.
  
• The Other Modern: The Traditional City - An exhibition and conference that examined 20th-century traditional urbanism and architecture, the centerpiece of the third International Triennale of Architecture and Urbanism of Bologna in 2000.
  
  

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