The rise of Dubai has been nothing short of meteoric. “It’s crazy,” said Lin Kim, an architect who worked on the city’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. “You look at these old ...

Vernacular architecture is composed of local materials and derived from local customs, techniques that have been passed on from generation to generation. But vernacular architecture in most (if not ...

Vietnamese Firm H&P Architects builds a prototype house to keep inhabitants safe from floods, rainstorms, and more. Why Architecture Needs to Take Advantage of Natural Resources Environmentally ...

Introduction : a theory for Western vernacular architecture / Thomas Carter -- False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Heath -- Folk design in Utah architecture, 1849 1890 / ...

A new book from the National Museum of Bermuda tells how Canadian artist John Lyman long ago discovered the beauty of the island’s vernacular architecture. In the first in a two-part series, historian ...

Before the advent of air conditioning and local building codes, any hope of living through a Lowcountry summer meant coming to terms with heat and humidity and finding how best take advantage of the ...

Sitting on Monocle’s design desk means the start of January is typically spent contemplating the architectural direction that I’m anticipating will come to the fore in the next 12 months. My process ...

Vernacular Studio is a local, multidisciplinary architecture and design firm founded by Brett Hautop, AIA and Chad Parker, AIA. The firm is comprised of three distinct components including an ...

The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different ...

Host Renee Montagne talks with Jim Heimann, the author of California Crazy and Beyond, a book about the lost art of wacky roadside architecture. Heimann has traced the history of some of the state's ...