Vernacular Architecture

Paradigms of Environmental Response

Mete Turan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040150191
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental Response was not meant to be collection to represent one view or approach. The only unifying element among the essays is the subject matter. It is clear that there are not only disagreements over the interpretation of objective facts, but more essentially there is a fundamental difference in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. However, regardless of these differences, if the present volume as an attempt to create a theoretical construct called into question the ideographic approaches which do not penetrate the surface, which persistently deal with formal qualities, and which are content with only simple deterministic relations, then it satisfies the major criterion that this collection of essays set for itself, namely to broaden the scope of discussion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• New Series Introduction to RLE: Ethnoscapes
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part One: On the nature of vernacular architecture
• Part Two: Constituents of vernacular architecture
• Part Three: Learning from vernacular architecture
• Part Four: Vernacular architecture as paradigm
• About the contributors
• Bibliography
• Index