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Vernacular architecture

Here are entered works dealing with architecture which is the product of artisans using traditional plans, local building materials and construction methods.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Vernacular architecture -- Asia
• Vernacular architecture -- China
• Vernacular architecture -- Developing countries
• Vernacular architecture -- Environmental aspects
• Vernacular architecture -- Islamic countries

• Architecture, Anonymous
• Architecture, Indigenous
• Architecture, Vernacular
• Folk architecture
• Indigenous architecture
• Traditional architecture

• Architecture and Identity (1983), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Changing Rural Habitat (1982), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • Volume I (Case Studies): PDF at archnet.org
  • Volume II (Background Papers): PDF at archnet.org

• China's Old Dwellings (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c2000), by Ronald G. Knapp (PDF and Epub at Hawaii Open)

• Mimar Houses, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in web page inset for chapter and download links))

• Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture: Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates, by Hassan Fathy, ed. by Walter Shearer and 'Abd al-Rahman Sultan (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)

• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Changing Rural Habitat (1982), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • Volume I (Case Studies): PDF at archnet.org
  • Volume II (Background Papers): PDF at archnet.org
• The Architecture of Housing (1990), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF at archnet.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.