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MODERNITY AND THE VERNACULAR [PDF]

open access: yesSurfaces, 2019
The vernacular in medieval literature, jazz, and rock and roll, as an avant-garde practice, a search for a sociality in the absence of pre-existing rules. Contrast between modernist experimentation (which is teleological and project-oriented) and the vernacular encounter with sheer chance. The social poetics of the vernacular as a way of rethinking the
openaire   +3 more sources

Layout Optimization of Residential Buildings to Improve the Outdoor Microclimate of Neighborhoods Along an Urban Bay: A Case Study of Shantou’s Inner Bay, China

open access: yesBuildings
In summer, the urban heat island effect causes unbearable warmth in Shantou City, especially in the urban areas along the Inner Bay with densely populated neighborhoods.
Wenqing Liu   +4 more
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KARAKTERISTIK SPASIAL PERMUKIMAN VERNAKULAR PERAIRAN DI SULAWESI TENGAH (Characteristic Settlement on The Spatial of Aquatic Vernacular at Central Sulawesi)

open access: yesJurnal Manusia dan Lingkungan, 2016
ABSTRAK Permukiman masyarakat perairan terbentuk karena kondisi alam dan geografi yang rentan terhadap bencana. Masyarakat setempat membangun rumah tinggal berbentuk panggung, di mana sebagian atau seluruhnya berada di atas air, menggunakan bahan ...
Ahda Mulyati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE VERNACULAR HIATUS: MODERNITY, TRADITION, AND ETHNICITY

open access: yesRuang-Space: Jurnal Lingkungan Binaan, 2016
The following paper began by serving as a general introduction to this special issue of Ruang – Space. In the course of writing it morphed into a slightly different offering.
Alexander R. Cuthbert   +1 more
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A Pavilion in the Danish forest by Vilhelm Wohlert; Tradition and Modernity

open access: yesGe-conservación, 2017
Danish architect Vilhelm Wohlert (1920-2007), after a stay as a guest teacher at Berkeley University, designs his first building. Created in a period of a flourishing architecture,, it achieves a balance between Danish tradition and modernity, where ...
Carmen García Sánchez
doaj   +1 more source

La question du roman en littérature africaine d’expression française. Une lecture de l’œuvre romanesque d’Émile Gankama [PDF]

open access: yesDiversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2021
In this study, we aim not only to place the work of Émile GANKAMA within the African literature of French expression, but also (and above all) to show that it makes a harmonious synthesis of various literary currents in the African Francophone ...
Ferdinand OKOKO-o-ALI
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Ablutionary Urbanisms: Water Infrastructures, Cultural Production and Charitable Dispensation

open access: yesFrontiers in Water, 2022
With interest in advancing inclusive urban landscapes and guided by principles of social and cultural sustainability, this essay speculates as to localized water infrastructures as “ablutionary urbanisms,” important forms of contemporary design ...
Brook Muller
doaj   +1 more source

Vernacularism as Ideology

open access: yesOGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies, 2013
Exclusion has become a cultural element of our species. The barricades serve to set one apart, to differentiate one from one’s fellows. The aim is to dominate. Terminologies, backed with elaborate theories legitimizing this division are churned out as an afterthought to suit practice. Deconstructionists point at this as proof of the ephemeral nature of
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A Cultural Heritage Framework for Preserving Qatari Vernacular Domestic Architecture

open access: yes, 2020
Architecture and urbanism in the Arabian Gulf region, and specifically in the State of Qatar, offer many scenes to observe the loss of urban identity and cultural heritage in the various components of the built environment, including residential ...
Asmaa Al-Mohannadi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Liturgical Inculturation: The Future That Awaits Us [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
(from Introduction) Among Lutherans liturgical inculturation is not a novelty. When Martin Luther translated the Latin liturgy into German and adopted popular songs for church services, he embarked on liturgical inculturation.
Chupungco, Anscar J.
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