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Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between
vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and
globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of
Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular
architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural
design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic,
technological, social and environmental changes, including
globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and
digital technologies. Sixteen chapters by architects designers and
theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore key questions
about the agency of vernacular architecture in shaping contemporary
building and design practice. These questions include: How have
Indigenous and First Nations building traditions shaped modern
building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture
contribute to debates about sustainable development? And how has
vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial
modernisation and nation-building and what has been the effect on
heritage and conservation? Such questions provide valuable case
studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions -- and
challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being
anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape
contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.
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