Vernacular Architecture: Concept, Examples and Reassessment
Keywords:
vernacular architecture, native architecture, sustainability, architecture without architects, traditional constructionAbstract
This article explores the concept of vernacular architecture, its prehistoric origins and presents some examples in the world that continue to be used and constitute lessons in sustainability and bioclimatic design. Vernacular architecture, despite being commonly undervalued and associated with poverty, is currently being revalued as an ethical and sustainable architecture in the face of the growing threat of climate change. This architecture is not necessarily an architecture "without architects", but the result of an accumulation of constructive design decisions of many anonymous actors who contributed to the creation of very localized and contextual architectural models and typologies, tested over time. However, despite its resilience, it is constantly threatened by the loss of ancestral knowledge about traditional constructions or the lack of technical support in its maintenance, situations that cause the values associated with vernacular architecture to be lost as well.
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