Learning from vernacular
Frey, Pierre, 1949-2010
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In the early 1980s, Ivan Illich published a number of radical critiques of modernity in which he drew attention to vernacular values, proposing a trenchant but hospitable definition of this term. It derives from Roman law, in which everything produced within the household for consumption within the household and not for sale or exchange is vernacular. In order to locate this proposition within the field of architectural criticism, this book borrows with ironic intent part of the title of Robert Venturis celebrated work, Learning from Las Vegas (1977), which launched the fashion for post-modernism in architecture. Taking advantage of a collection of maquettes of vernacular architecture (the only one of its kind in the world), whose special attributes he highlights and whose value he underlines, the author selects contemporary realisations by architects from Africa, Asia, America and Europe that seem to him to constitute a new vernacular architecture.
Main title:
Learning from vernacular / Pierre Frey ; [texts, Patrick Bouchain ... et al. ; English translations, Chris Miller].
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Imprint:
Arles, France : Actes Sud, 2010.
Collation:
173 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name, by EPFL; ACAAT, Vitra Design Museum: 5 June - 4 October 2009, Domaine de Boisbuchet (Lessac, France) ; 5th June - 21 August 2010, at GoldenPass, between Montreux and Rossiniere, Netherlands d'Enhaut, Switzerland.Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173)Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9782742793877
Dewey class:
720.1
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
143313
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