Vernacular architecture (住宅與民居(一))

Course documents, Slides of the lectures,

Targets (教學目標)

• Develop the sensibility of students toward vernacular architecture.
• Discuss factors influencing the development of vernacular architecture.
• Plead for a better protection of vernacular architecture.

Outline (教學內容綱要)

The class consists of lecture sessions.

• Introduction to the study of vernacular architecture.
• Climatic factors.
• Site factors.
• Material factors.
• Socio-cultural factors.
• Examples in Afghanistan.
• Examples in Belgium.
• Examples in Switzerland.
• Examples in China.
• Examples in Taiwan.

Assessment (評量)

Paper, final exam, participation during the class.

Bibliography

• Amos Rapoport, House Form and Culture, Prentice Hall, 1969
• Bernard Rudofski, Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, University of New Mexico Press, 1987
• James P. Spradley, The ethnographic interview, Wadsworth, 1979
• Paul Oliver, Dwellings, Phaidon Press, 2003
• Ramparts, villages and vernacular dwellings of Dang-Jia-Cun village of Han-Cheng, 1999
• Stanley Ira Hallet, Rafi Samizay, Traditional architecture of Afghanistan, Garland STPM Press, 1980
• Chen Chi-Lu, Material culture of the formosan aborigenes, Southern Materials Center, 1968
• ICOMOS, Vernacular architecture (Monuments and Sites V), 2002