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ARCHITECTS AND LAY travellers alike admire the unique qualities of indigenous architectures. Those unarmingly unpretentious buildings echo the characteristics of their geographic contexts, sites, local materials, and crafts; they seem to express the essence of their specific culture. The vernacular building traditions of the world strengthen the experience of cultural variety and the awareness of place—the very sources of our geographic and cultural curiosity. These locales address all our senses at once, and they speak pleasantly of the continuity of tradition and the passage of time. [fig. 1]
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Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture without Architects (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965).
Franz Kafka, letter dated 16 December 1911. As quoted in Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind (New York: Meridian Books, Inc., 1959), 200.
“Modernism has put on the robe of Kitsch,” writes Kundera. Milan Kundera, Romaanin taide [The Art of the Novel] (Juva, Finland: Werner Söderström Oy, 1987), 168.
Kenneth Frampton, “Prospects for a Critical Regionalism.” First published in Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal 20 (1983): 147–62. The notion was coined in A. Tzonis, L. Lefaivre, “The grid and the pathway,” Architecture in Greece 5 (1981).
Marlon Blackwell, “A House in the Trees: the TowerHouse,” OZ Journal 25 (2003): 66.
Ibid.
Marlon Blackwell, “Articulating the Everyday” in (Re) Viewing the Tectonic: Architecture/Technology/Production (lecture and subsequent paper, session D12, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture+Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000), 40.
Marlon Blackwell, “A House in the Trees: the TowerHouse,” OZ Journal 25 (2003): 67.
Blackwell, “Articulating the Everyday,” 41.
Ibid., 40.
Ibid.
Par-delà les nuages [Beyond the Clouds], film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, 1995, France, Italy, Germany.
Blackwell, “Articulating the Everyday,” 41.
Marlon Blackwell, “At the Edge In the Frame,” OZ Journal 22 (2000): 53.
Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 76.
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Pallasmaa, J. (2005). Place and Image. In: An Architecture of the Ozarks. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-630-0_3
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