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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.

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• Vernacular architecture -- Asia
• Vernacular architecture -- Austria
• Vernacular architecture -- Bermuda Islands
• Vernacular architecture -- China
• Vernacular architecture -- Developing countries
• Vernacular architecture -- Environmental aspects
• Vernacular architecture -- Germany
• Vernacular architecture -- Germany (West)
• Vernacular architecture -- Great Britain
• Vernacular architecture -- Hungary
• Vernacular architecture -- Islamic countries
• Vernacular architecture -- Japan
• Vernacular architecture -- Malay Archipelago
• Vernacular architecture -- Mississippi
• Vernacular architecture -- New Zealand
• Vernacular architecture -- Norway
• Vernacular architecture -- Oceania
• Vernacular architecture -- Periodicals
• Vernacular architecture -- Sweden
• Vernacular architecture -- Tennessee
• Vernacular architecture -- United States

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

• Nihon no minka (Oka Shoin, 1927), by Wajirō Kon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bauernhäuser aus Oberbayern und angrenzenden Gebieten Tirols (L. Werner, 1900), by Otto Aufleger and Philipp Maria Halm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Architecture and Identity (1983), ed. by Robert Powell (PDF with commentary 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)

• Nihon no minka (Oka Shoin, 1927), by Wajirō Kon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bauernhäuser aus Oberbayern und angrenzenden Gebieten Tirols (L. Werner, 1900), by Otto Aufleger and Philipp Maria Halm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Das Bauernhaus des Walgaues und der walserischen Bergtäler Vorarlbergs, einschliesslich des Montavon : Beiträge zur Hausforschung in alemannisch-romanischem Grenzgebiet (C.A. Seyfried, 1913), by Georg Baumeister (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bermuda Houses, by John S. Humphreys (Gutenberg ebook)

• Mimar Houses, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated Documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• 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)

• Der norddeutsche Holzbau in seiner historischen Enwickelung. (Seemann, 1885), by Carl Lachner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Holzbaukunst in Deutschland (E.A. Seemann, 1887), by Carl Lachner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bauernhäuser aus Oberbayern und angrenzenden Gebieten Tirols (L. Werner, 1900), by Otto Aufleger and Philipp Maria Halm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Das alte malerische Schwarzwald-Haus : eine Schilderung der verschiedenen Bauarten des Äusseren und Inneren des Schwarzwaldhauses unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der alten handwerksmässigen Volkskunst sowie die Sitten und Gebräuche seiner Bewohner (Freiburger Druck- und Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1915), by Richard Schilling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hessische Holzbauten. (N.G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1906), by B. Hanftmann and L. Bickell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Das Neue niederrheinische Dorf : auf der Deutschen Werkbundausstellung in Köln 1914 (E. Wasmuth, 1914), by Friedrich Becker, Georg Metzendorf, and Germany) Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung (1914 : Cologne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Domestic architecture : being a series of designs for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiffs' lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park gate lodges, etc. in the Grecian, Italian, and old English styles of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site : the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy : with accurate estimates appended to each design (London : Printed for the author, King Street Portman Square : and sold by Messrs. Longman and Co., Paternoster Row, Taylor, High Holborn, Priestly & Co, High Street, Bloomsbury, Ackerman, Strand, Treuttel Würtz & Co., Soho Square, Waller, Fleet Street, Calkin and Budd, Pall Mall, Payne, High Street, Marylebone, and Williams, Charles Street, Soho Square, 1833-1834., 1833), by Francis Goodwin, C. Rosenberg, Richard Gilson Reeve, J. W. Edge, and Robert Havell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Himes udvar (Taltos, 1916), by Ede Toroczkai-Wigand, Norbert Schoenauer, and Erno Margitay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Inside Austronesian houses : perspectives on domestic designs for living (Published by the Dept. of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1993), by James J. Fox and Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mississippi Piney Woods: A Photographic Study of Folk Architecture, by Patti Carr Black (Gutenberg ebook)

• Inside Austronesian houses : perspectives on domestic designs for living (Published by the Dept. of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1993), by James J. Fox and Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• Denkmale einer sehr ausgebildeten Holzbaukunst aus den frühesten Jahrhunderten in den inneren Landschaften Norwegens ([s.n.], 1837), by J. C. Dahl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inside Austronesian houses : perspectives on domestic designs for living (Published by the Dept. of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1993), by James J. Fox and Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• AR: Arhitektura, Raziskave (in English and Slovenian; 2001-) (partial serial archives)
• Emara: Indonesian Journal of Architecture (in Indonesian and English; 2015-) (partial serial archives)

• Beschreibung der Bauer- und anderer gemeiner Leute Häuser, und wie sie sowohl von Steinen als von Holz nach den strengsten Regeln der Sparsamkeit aufzubauen sind, nebst dazu gehörigen Zeichnungen auf acht Kupfertafeln und Anschlägen zu den nöthigen Baumaterialien : von den Reichständen in Schweden auf dem Reichstage im Jahr 1765 gebilliget und hernach auf königlichen Befehl durch den Druck bekannt gemacht (Bey Heineck und Faber, 1768), by Carl Wynblad and Heineck und Faber (page images at HathiTrust)

• A survey of traditional architecture and related material folk culture patterns in the Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1976), by Norbert F. Riedl, Anthony P. Cavender, and Donald B. Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American folk architecture : a selected bibliography (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1981), by Howard W. Marshall, Marsha Maguire, Cheryl Gorn, Library of Congress, and American Folklife Center (page images at HathiTrust)

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