Lessons from Vernacular Architecture: Achieving Climatic Buildings by Studying the Past – Lessons from Vernacular Architecture: Achieving Climatic Buildings by Studying the Past

“”The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. This has been rekindled by the need to develop an architecture that works with climate, rather than against it, to create more sustainable buildings. Most earlier research and existing publications on traditional or vernacular architecture have followed an anthropological or archaeological approach, whereas books on climatic design and sustainable architecture tend to refer to contemporary principles and built precedents without di