Lessons from Vernacular Architecture |
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| Editor:
| Yannas, Simos
Weber, Willi |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84407-600-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.95 |
Book Description:
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The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. The appropriate technical and social solutions provided by vernacular and traditional architecture are analysed in detail. International case studies focus on environmental design aspects of...
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The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. The appropriate technical and social solutions provided by vernacular and traditional architecture are analysed in detail. International case studies focus on environmental design aspects of traditional architecture in a broad range of climatic conditions and building types.