Vernacular
This term applies to both local styles and local materials. A building can be of a grand style in vernacular materials - for example a Georgian building made of field stone - or it can be a vernacular type of building such as an igloo or a ...
Industrial Vernacular style
"Vernacular" architecture indicates a traditional type of housing utilized by ordinary wage earners.
Vernacular architecture - A term of recent usage indicating, by analogy with language (native, or local dialects) buildings in indigenous styles constructed from locally available materials following traditional building practice and patterns and ...
Vernacular Architecture in China:
Houses and other folk architecture in China take on a variety of forms to provide the need for basic shelter in a widely varied landscape.
Vernacular
A term describing modest and unpretentious architecture, often constructed in a purely regional style and usually a hybrid of more high-style architectural precedents.
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Vernacular: This term describes an architectural style or design of house derived primarily from popular taste.
vernacular: the characteristic style of building for an area, usually unaffected by other architectural styles.
volute: the spiral scroll on the corners of Ionic and Corinthian capitals; immediately beneath the abacus.
Vernacular
Vernacular architecture is the term used to indicate that the architecture is local to the region in which it is found and generated by the people of that region.
Neo-Vernacular
A tendency within (especially) 20th-century architecture, at its strongest since the 1970s, which seeks to evoke local traditions of building, usually in pursuit of a friendly, domestic image.Neo-Wren ...
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Carpenter gothic Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, California (built 1905) showing gothic arches, steep gables, and a tower. The tower includes examples of abat-sons.
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Vernacular
- an indigenous building constructed of locally available materials, to local detail, usually without the benefit of an architect. Somehow it is now taken to imply a fairly humble or practical origin, but this is not the case.
VERNACULARstructures, built without the help of a professional architect, which reflect regional and cultural adaptations of architectural fashions.
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vernacular - used to describe buildings with little or no stylistic pretension, or those which may reflect a rural interpretation of high-style architecture of the day ...
The vernacular Old English of 'monasterium', usually applied to mother churches manned by secular priests covering a 'parochia' or parish.
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CRUCK: a curved timber that forms the whole of one side of an arch (that is, both the jamb and one side of the arch itself), usually indicating a building's early vernacular construction.
In this provocative work he defended vernacular architecture-for example, ...
The design of the bungalow was influenced by the Prairie School movement of the Midwest, the California Arts and Crafts movement, and a number of vernacular housing types.
Many of the buildings that you will see along the state's highways, country roads, and main streets are examples of vernacular architecture.
Googie style took its cues from Streamline Moderne and commercial vernacular architecture of the 1930s and 1940s. It began as a way to make the most of strip malls and other roadside locations and to catch the eye of passing motorists.
Vernacular - In architecture, of traditional and indigenous historical style.
Villa - A country house.
Village - Any small assemblage of houses less than a town.
The houses of Sumatra are one of the most distinctive features of the island and are world famous as examples of vernacular architecture. There are many regional house forms representing different cultural traditions, many of which predate Islam.
Because of the ease of contruction, the Tuscan mode became part of the vernacular Georgian style that has lingered in places like New England and Ohio deep into the 19th century.
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
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bay window - a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house ...
These vernacular house styles are less elaborate than the high Victorian styles which they mimic. These plain house styles characterize working class areas in cities and farm houses in the countryside.
In architecture they looked at the unselfconscious vernacular tradition of barns, mills, and cottages as an inspiration and at the aesthetics of the medieval period.
CHIMNEYS Chimneys are usually built of stone or brick (more modern chimneys may be of cinder block) and are located at either the exterior side walls of the building or at the center or interior of the building. Certain vernacular folk building ...
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