Sentences with phrase «vernacular building styles»

All three communities are an architectural response to the early maritime villages of Nantucket — a merging of distinctive, coastal shingle homes with Floridian vernacular building styles.

This resulted in many vernacular building styles in different parts of the world.

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Beyond the largely non-objective painting style itself, the constructs he builds change the vernacular of Abstract Expressionism.

Highlights from this conceptually minded show, organized by Guggenheim curator Sara Raza, include Kadar Attia's replica of a North African city that he's constructed with couscous, salt and glue to comment on French modernist architect Le Corbusier's appropriation of the region's vernacular style of design and Mariam Ghani's video installation that contrasts two modernist buildings in Afghanistan and Germany: one depicted in a state of ruin while the other is being redeveloped.