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Design and the Vernacular: Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory

by Paul Memmott
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350294301
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 110.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Vernacular, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, and Australian & Oceanian

Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes, including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies.

Sixteen chapters by architects designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore key questions about the agency of vernacular architecture in shaping contemporary building and design practice. These questions include: How have Indigenous building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? And how has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial modernisation and nation-building and what has been the effect on heritage and conservation?

Such questions provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions -- and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.

Memmott, Paul: - Paul Memmott is an anthropologist and architect and for some decades has been the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Queensland (School of Architecture and Institute for Social Science Research).

O'Rourke, Tim: - Tim O'Rourke is Health Safety and Wellness Chair and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Ting, John: - John Ting is an Australian architect, researcher and educator. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra, and he has previously taught at the University of Melbourne and at RMIT University.

Vellinga, Marcel: - Marcel Vellinga is Professor of Anthropology of Architecture and Director of the Place, Culture, and Identity research group in the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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