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Elemen-elemen Arsitektur Vernakular dalam Analisa Ruang dan Bentuk pada Gereja Pohsarang

open access: yesRUAS, 2017
Church is a sacred place for Catholics. Catholic faith itself did not come from Nusantara, hence the nonNusantara shape of Catholic church architecture.
Monica Basri
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The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In the present paper, we describe the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis. As individuals learn to read and write, they are, from then on, exposed to extensive written‐language input and become literate. We propose that acquisition and proficient processing of written language (“literacy”) leads to, both, increased language knowledge as ...
Falk Huettig, Jan Hulstijn
wiley   +1 more source

Studies of Vernacular Gyumri

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2019
Architectural and environmental peculiarities of the city of Gyumri (former Alexandropol, Leninakan) lie in the vernacular – a thick middle layer of historical “architecture without architects” built by local skilled bricklayers from the local material ...
Andrei Ivanov
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Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract Geographical work on hotels has foregrounded their role as spaces of commercial hospitality, leisure, and increasingly as sites of emergency accommodation for a range of displaced groups. Developing such work, this paper critically examines the central role of hotels in accommodating and containing asylum seekers and refugees.
Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge
wiley   +1 more source

Vernacular Revival and Ideology - What's Left? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay derives from a lecture first given at a Vernacular Architecture Group conference on vernacular revivals in 2015, reprised to generally younger audiences at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the University of Westminster.
Guillery, P
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Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

Changing boundaries and meanings of middle class houses in Sri Lanka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Houses are distinctively organised spatial networks that embody social norms and meaning of a given culture. Normally it is accepted that visually identifiable house ‘types’ which also closely fit the culture of a group are adopted by society.
Paranagamage, Primali
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