Learn how climate change threatens the traditional building techniques of vernacular architecture, as seen in Tiébélé's ...

Modern Moroccan architecture is reinterpreting vernacular traditions. Taking its name from the Arabic al-maġhrib, or the “place the sun sets; the west”, the kingdom is a sovereign state home to ...

Natural aesthetic quality of vernacular architecture has been substituted by a new-fangled version that is neither self-sufficient nor eco-friendly Vernacular architecture in Bengaluru is seen in ...

In so many ways, the world has never been smaller than it is right now. From global trade and long-haul flights to Facebook and Google, systems operate across every continent with less friction than ...

Daves Rossell would like to look into your house with 400 of his friends. You don't have to dust or provide snacks. He'd prefer that you hadn't applied for a home equity loan. The Savannah College of ...

To suggest that someone was born in a barn is not polite. To mistake someone’s home for a barn is considered quite cool. Mike Benton’s Grandview neighbors thought he was building a barn until he moved ...

British architect Piers Taylor advocates a radically local approach to contemporary architecture in his book, Learning from ...

Set within the dense, historic fabric of a village in inland Andalusia, this house reinterprets Mediterranean vernacular architecture, contrasting minimal white volumes with subtle shifts in form and ...

This low-lying house on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, designed by Australian practices Carr and Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, features blackened-timber facades that reference local ...

Whenever I go to a new city, I like to look at its identifying buildings. I don't mean the formal attractions — museums, basilicas, libraries, and so on — but the ordinary and yet very particular ...

The capital city of Indian-administered Kashmir is home to historical architectural marvels that have endured the ravages of time. Though the modern architecture has taken more space, the city ...

In traditional Kashmiri homes, refinements such as the Zoon Dub – or a cantilevered balcony designed to view the moon (called zoon in Kashmiri) – were common. Balconies and eaves with beautiful fret ...