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6 unusual facts about Vernacular architecture


Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum is a museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

Horsham Unitarian Church

The Horsham chapel is a "plain, cottage-like building" which forms part of a group of old vernacular buildings on the west side of the Worthing Road—including Horsham's Quaker Friends Meeting House.

Listed buildings in Dutton, Cheshire

It was extended in the 19th century with recasing in Vernacular Revival style.

Listed buildings in Great Budworth

To this end he employed architects working in the Vernacular Revival style, including John Douglas, Edmund Kirby, and William Eden Nesfield.

Listed buildings in Manley, Cheshire

It has an irregular linear plan, and is in a variation of Vernacular Revival style.

Pepperstock

However, Pepperstock displays an interesting range of vernacular buildings, most notably in the form of 16th and 17th century timber framing with brick infill and red clay tiled roofs.


Appling, Georgia

In 1855, the Courthouse in Appling received a major overhaul, and after the remodeling was complete in 1856, the building was in more or less its present form, a vernacular structure with Greek Revival and Italianate influences.

Holyrood estate

Owen Hatherley describes the estate as a "straightforward scattering of low and medium-rise Modernist blocks, using the soft-Brutalist vernacular of stock-brick and concrete."

Paul Oliver

He has argued that vernacular architecture will be necessary in the future to "ensure sustainability in both cultural and economic terms beyond the short term." He is well known for his 1997 work Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World.

Springland

The vernacular building was constructed in 1845, by United States Assistant Attorney General Henry Hatch Dent and his wife, Ann Maria Adlum Dent, daughter of John Adlum.

Yellow Springs Historic District

Today, many of Yellow Springs' buildings are examples of the Federal or Greek Revival styles, although vernacular buildings, such as its plentiful I-houses, are numerous.


see also

Glenn Murcutt

He grew up in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, where he developed an appreciation for simple, vernacular architecture.

Vicky Richardson

Her book New Vernacular Architecture was published in 2001 by Laurence King Publishing.