{"product_id":"design-and-the-vernacular-9781350294301","title":"Design and the Vernacular","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a welcome, timely volume drawing attention to local architectural traditions.  Often overlooked, these represent generations of experience of particular places.  They feature ingenious, often sustainable, solutions to local conditions.  They are versatile and adaptable, and importantly today, they offer many people the scope independently to manage with climate change, being within their control, depending on local knowledge, skills and available materials. * Paul Sillitoe, Durham University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaul Memmott and Marcel Vellinga \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Design Practice and Research Methods in Applying the Vernacular to Contemporary Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e 1.     The Architectural Vernacularisation of Pacific Aid Practice - \u003ci\u003eCharmaine ‘Ilaiu Talei, University of Auckland, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e 2.     Te Whakapapa o nga Wharenui: A Genealogy of Maori Meeting Houses - \u003ci\u003eSavannah Brown (Ngati Whatua ki Kaipara, Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine, Ngati Wai), Amber Ruckes (Tuhoe), Faye Mendes-Underwood (Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa), Aisea Fanamanu, Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) and Jason Ingham, all \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaipapa Taumata Rau\/University of Auckland, Aotearoa\/New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e 3.     ‘Tropical Architecture’: Cultural Collisions and Reverberations in the Vernacular of Aotearoa New Zealand - \u003ci\u003eJacqueline McIntosh and Bruno Marques, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria University of Wellington, New Zealand \u003c\/i\u003e 4.     Linguistics and Architecture, Creolistics and History, or, is Norfolk Island Architecture (a) Creole? - \u003ci\u003eJoshua Nash, founding editor of \u003c\/i\u003eSome Islands   \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Bridging between Local Cultures and Influences of Modernity\u003c\/b\u003e 5.     Is Vernacular the New Modern?  Reflections on Movements, Changes and Preservation in Indonesia - \u003ci\u003eGabriele Weichart, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Vienna, Austria\u003c\/i\u003e 6.     Adaptive Uses of Traditional Windbreaks and Bough Shades for Indigenous Housing in Australia - \u003ci\u003eTimothy O’Rourke, University of Queensland, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e 7.     Building on Indigenous Homelands in Arnhem Land since the 1980s: Harnessing Appropriate Technologies and Partnerships as a New Procurement Vernacular - \u003ci\u003eHannah Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e 8.     The Resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge in Adapting Vernaculars: Implications of Climate Change for Rimajol Architectural Traditions - \u003ci\u003eJames Miller, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWestern Washington University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 9.     Papua New Guinea’s Vernacular Architecture, from Relics to Reframing Culture: Kunguma and Tubusereia - \u003ci\u003eR. H. Rusch,  J. H. N. Amar and L. A. Armitage, all \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBond University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Bridging for Diasporic Peoples\u003c\/b\u003e 10.  Archipelagic Views: Vernacular Transformation and Inter-Colonial Agricultural Trade Networks in the Late 19th Century Asia Pacific - \u003ci\u003eAmanda Achmadi, Karen Burns, and Paul Walker, all University of Melbourne, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e 11.  Hand in Hand with Crossed Top Plates: Mapping the Contribution of Chinese Carpenters to the Production and Installation of Melbourne’s Prefabricated ‘Singapore Cottages’ - \u003ci\u003eJohn Ting, University of Canberra, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e 12.  Diasporic Vernaculars? Different Australian Commercial Precincts - \u003ci\u003eDavid Beynon, University of Tasmania, Australia and Ian Woodcock, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Sydney, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e 13.  Translating Spaces: Speculative Landscape Futures for New Climate Diasporas - \u003ci\u003eLizzie Yarina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and Penny Allan and Martin Bryant, both \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Technology Sydney, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart 4: The Vernacular in Postcolonial Modernisation, Politication and Nation-Building\u003c\/b\u003e 14.  Historic Church Vernacular in the Cook Islands: Modernization, Conservation and Change - \u003ci\u003eCarolyn Hill, University of Waikato, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e 15.  Appropriating the Native: Shifting Definitions of the Vernacular in Twentieth-Century Philippine Architecture - \u003ci\u003eEdson G. Cabalfin, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTulane University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e16.  From Cultural Symbol to Societal Sign: The Question of the Kanak Traditional House in Present-Day New Caledonia - \u003ci\u003eLouis Lagarde, University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia and Yves-Béalo Gony, IANCP, New Caledonia\u003c\/i\u003e  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866598814039,"sku":"9781350294301","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/design-and-the-vernacular-9781350294301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}