Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation
The aim of this book is to reflect on ''vernacularity'' and culture. It concentrates on two major domains: first it attempts to reframe our understanding of vernacularity by addressing the subject in the context of globalisation, cross-disciplinarity, and
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aming the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation
Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation
Gusti Ayu Made Suartika • Julie Nichols Editors
Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation
Editors Gusti Ayu Made Suartika Masters Program in Architecture and Development & Planning Udayana University Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Julie Nichols School of Art, Architecture and Design, Vernacular Knowledge Research Group University of South Australia Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Foreword
Vernacular architecture is contextual and particular in respect to place, geography and culture. Vernacular buildings and settlements involve uses of local resources, respond to local climate and produce regional and local identities. Rapid development, uncontrolled growth, urbanization and other forces of change have profound impacts on vernacular architecture. The challenges that face vernacular architecture are many. They range from commodification of culture through the use of vernacular building forms and appropriations of traditional materials by the tourist industry to mindless imitations of vernacular building elements so as to invent national or regional identities. As we become more global we also face the challenge of how to conserve, preserve and sustain local vernacular building practices and unique regional architectural and settlement characteristics. Within this context of continuity and change, discourses pertaining to the role and uses of vernacular architectur
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