Sentence examples for vernacular designs from inspiring English sources

It was soon reckoned that the fonctionnaires would be better off in vernacular designs made in local materials.

This paper discusses the use of vernacular designs for present-day Abu Dhabi to create intermediate non-steady state spaces for relief from the heat.

Like the architect Robert Venturi, Kalman saw local, vernacular design as a weapon against the homogenizing effects of "corporate modernism".

For Mr. Rigg, observing his own culture through his client's eye allowed him to re-examine Australian vernacular design.

They provided an essential source in the development of vernacular design programs at institutions like the University of California at Berkeley.

So Geithner and his colleagues speak about the bank rescue in a Washington vernacular designed to preserve political options and elasticity.

Yet it is in this state of decay that the stores hold a curious fascination — indeed, a raw beauty — for anyone concerned with vernacular design.

Yet the most imaginative of them are intriguing examples of vernacular design, whose choice of symbolism is expressive, often eccentric and tells us a great deal about the character of the club, its history and location.

Also here is a large display stocked with examples of vernacular design from the 1940's and 50's that the couple accumulated over the years, along with a few fakes -- Utz potato chips?

The garden's layout was developed with help from a friend, Bernard Rudofsky, an Austrian architect who is remembered for his book "Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture," the catalog for the 1964 Museum of Modern Art exhibition that introduced an appreciation of vernacular design.

This article discusses the evolution of planning and urban theory from the perspectives of vernacular design in Saudi Arabia settlements.