Vernacular - or traditional - architecture encompasses most of the buildings of the world. This encyclopedia is the first to show the remarkable diversity of the buildings constructed and lived in by ...

Athens is a patchwork of different architectural styles. Significant archaeological temples belonging to the city's rich historical past, neoclassical mansions and massive concrete blocks of ...

A new generation of sustainable practices is transforming the architectural landscape. What is its 'secret'? The combination of innovation, ecological awareness, and, fundamentally, the ...

Worofila is a studio dedicated to bioclimatic and ecological architecture. Based in Dakar, Senegal, the firm explores the potential of vernacular materials like earth bricks and typha, applying ...

Athens, Georgia—home to the state's flagship university—is a hotbed for creatives, which is where Architectural Collaborative was started in 2017 by Lori ...

Vernacular architecture is generally understood as referring to domestic, native and Indigenous structures. So it is perhaps of little surprise that in our contemporary scape—dominated by forms of ...

This article is about the country. For architecture of the U.S. state, see Architecture of the United States. For the unrelated style that emerged in the English-speaking world during the reigns of ...

Each time it is revived, it is different. Vernacular architecture works slightly differently and is listed separately. It is the native method of construction used by local people, usually using ...

The 12th century saw the rise of vernacular literature - a literary revolution in Europe. In actuality, the first vernacular texts appeared on the continent as early as the 8th or 9th centuries, but ...

House of Architecture is the future of RIBA. It is a transformative programme to make architecture more accessible for everyone – our members, our profession, the world. Building on our nearly 200 ...