As the Great Philosopher, Mike Tyson said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. Angola, like many African countries, is experiencing a process of rapid urbanization. For the ...
As the Great Philosopher, Mike Tyson said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The COVID-19 pandemic will deeply impact the world of aesthetics. For the first time since League ...
Jean-paul Bourdier, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, has published several books on vernacular architecture, particularly in Africa. His latest, co-authored by ...
Internationally renowned architectural scholars will descend upon Adelaide, South Australia, later this year for a conference exploring the varied nature of modern vernacular studies and its insight ...
Very much in the loop, the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s (VAF) book, Out of the Loop, is a collection of essays that survey Chicago’s architectural terrain from the standpoint of its neighborhoods.
A new book from the National Museum of Bermuda tells how Canadian artist John Lyman long ago discovered the beauty of the island’s vernacular architecture. In the first in a two-part series, historian ...
Before computer daylight simulations were used to optimize the atmosphere and energy in buildings, generations of builders developed simple principles to create the best windows for their site. Two ...