vernacular architecture
vernacular architecture noun: a class of architectural styles which meet local needs, use local construction materials and reflect local traditions.
Noun
vernacular architecture (countable and uncountable, plural vernacular architectures)
- A class of architectural styles which meet local needs, use local construction materials and reflect local traditions.
- Vernacular architecture scholars have increasingly studied the products of automobile tourism, although often with a wink of the eye or with tongue planted in cheek.2000, Michael Ann Williams, Larry Morrisey, “Chapter 9: Constructions of Tradition: Vernacular Architecture, Country Music, and Auto-Ethnography”, in Sally Ann McMurry, Annmarie Adams, editors...
- To be bathed in, however, the sea also had to be entered, and Western countries developed a range of alternative vernacular architectures designed to provide access to the ocean.2006, Fred Gray, Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, Reaktion Books, page 147
Forms of vernacular architecture
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Questions about vernacular architecture
- What does vernacular architecture mean?
- Vernacular architecture means a class of architectural styles which meet local needs, use local construction materials and reflect local traditions.
- What part of speech is vernacular architecture?
- Vernacular architecture is a noun.
- What is the plural of vernacular architecture?
- The plural of vernacular architecture is vernacular architectures.
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