Sentence examples for main vernacular from inspiring English sources

This work makes a contribution to the definition of historical housing areas by cataloguing the different dwellings, hence it underlines the need to define building typologies in order to simplify the multiparametric analysis and identify the main vernacular characteristics on such a wide scale.

For Mr. Efrat the new project enhances what he sees as "one of the best postwar buildings anywhere" without losing its main achievement: "an indigenous vernacular for the new Jewish state".

They are also looking hard at filling stations, pizza huts, and other flowerings of the vernacular impulse ("Main Street is almost all right," according to Robert Venturi), and they are experimenting with spatial concepts that sometimes seem to have as little to do with architecture as the linguistic games of the Conceptual artists have to do with art.

Scribes other than those responsible for the main text often copy the vernacular text of the Hymn in manuscripts of the Latin Historia.

With its corrugated roof and a veranda that surrounds the entire exterior, the main house is modeled on the tropical Queensland vernacular type known as "the inside-out house," a 19th-century building style in which the structural framing was exposed, much as it is in a barn, reversing the Victorian custom of a grand facade.

The main objectives of this study were to investigate vernacular passive cooling techniques and their potential application for improving indoor thermal comfort of naturally ventilated, modern brick terraced houses in Malaysia.

The main literary values of the period are found in vernacular works.

(Zinoman) 'THE MAIN(E) PLAY' Chad Beckim continues his romance with English vernacular in this semi-autobiographical riff on family set in Maine.

The main purpose of this paper is to determine potential vernacular passive cooling strategies for improving thermal comfort of modern urban houses in hot-humid climate of Malaysia.

The main objective of the research is to use the vernacular prototypes and patterns to reach a design that is most culturally and environmentally adapted.

There are nine main black languages in South Africa: most are too sparsely spoken for a vernacular paper to make money.