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Vernacular Architecture

A topic within Architectural History, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.

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Book1964

Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture

Bernard Rudofsky

Vernacular buildings raised without architects, by anonymous builders responding directly to climate, terrain and communal need, solved problems of comfort and settlement that professional architecture has since had to relearn.

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The Evolution of the English House

Sidney Oldall Addy

Traces the English house from a single smoke-filled hall to a differentiated plan of separate rooms, arguing domestic architecture evolved in step with changing social life rather than through style alone.

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Reading on Vernacular Architecture

Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture

The Evolution of the English House

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