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Architecture is Awesome #25: Vernacular Architecture

SW Oregon Architect

Vernacular architecture is a category of building characterized by high adaptation to local needs and traditions. Vernacular architecture is not the product of academically prescribed “styles” dissociated from regional constraints and the imperatives of site, setting, and context.

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Editor’s Guide: 6 Ways To Get Your Project Featured on Architizer

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Each week, our brilliant team of writers, editors and architecture curators scroll through our directory, searching for inspiration for articles and selecting user-uploaded projects to be featured across our social media channels and in our Journal feature articles. When it comes to images, the more, the better.

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AI and the Renaissance of Parametric Design

Architizer

For more ways to supercharge your workflow, check out more articles in our Tech for Architects series, which includes our recommendations of Top Laptops for Architects and Designers. matankic , Buildings in the desert by Zaha Hadid high resolution , CC BY-SA 4.0 Rhododendrites , Oculus (41323p) , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Best Anticipated Architecture Projects 2022

aasarchitecture

The AASA editorial team has selected some of the most important buildings planned for 2023 including cultural centres, public spaces and residential buildings. The fourth space – not affiliated with any specific religion – will serve as a center for all people of goodwill to come together as one. Image © HENN.

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"I would caution against claims of stone being a revolutionary sustainable material" says Natalia Petkova

Deezen

The virtue of solid stone construction is case-specific and depends on where the stone comes from and how it is employed." Transportation of stone can offset carbon benefits Petkova cautioned against claims that stone is a "limitless material" that can readily be extracted from the Earth's crust and transported to construction sites.

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Best architecture projects of 2022

aasarchitecture

The AASA editorial team has selected some of the most important architectures built this year which include cultural centres, public spaces and residential buildings. Read the full article here. Read the full article here. Read the full article here. Read the full article here. Read the full article here.

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Minimalist Marfa compound lists for $3.5m

The Spaces

It sits in the remote desert arts town of Marfa, known for its modernist architecture and site-specific artworks by minimalist artist Donald Judd. Its owners, Terry Mowers and Lindy Thorsen, bought the original building in 2007 in an unfinished state and hired Berkeley-based studio Rael San Fratello to complete it.