Sentences with phrase «with vernacular architecture»

One of the problems with vernacular architecture is that the designers don't always get it right.

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In his two - page letter to the town, Krattinger called the Vanderbilt House «an exceptional example of Dutch vernacular architecture in Rockland County,» noting «and it has survived, perhaps somewhat remarkably, with its original floor plan and the bulk of its interior features intact.»

The low - status rural settlements showed how indigenous communities coexisted with Roman invaders, by keeping much of their vernacular architecture, but furnishing their homes with Roman manufactured goods.

An exhibition of modern architecture and Caribbeanesque vernaculars, the private enclave offers the serenity of understated elegance with contemporary luxuries.

The Boathouse is a rural contemporary vernacular architecture replete with nautical design themes, with upper and lower decks overhanging the lake.

The architecture is in the Caribbean vernacular with plantation shutters painted a cool grey against which the palms, lawns and forest appear all the more green.

Works in various scale create dynamic spatial relationships: a metal structure covered with accumulated bottles sits on the floor, informed by vernacular architecture as well as the cotillion, a social dance originating in France in the 18th century and further developed by African Americans in the United States; and a chandelier of oversized cowrie shells hangs dramatically within a large and site - specific yurt - like structure.

I am drawn to vernacular architecture, that which is unplanned and that which is built with humble materials.

Blades conjoins the spiritual with the vernacular in an intense «architecture of objects.»

He juxtaposes modernist architecture with structures common in Latin America — favela shacks, adobe and vernacular buildings — and he incorporates aspects of the do - it - yourself economy to find practical solutions when resources are scarce.

With more than 100,000 images, nearly all photos taken by Mr. Satterthwaite, the Slide Collection offers an expansive view of land uses, the built environment, and vernacular architecture primarily in North America.

The striking composition was inspired by local metalworkers working on drain gutters, and resonates with Dakar's vernacular architecture of wrought iron window bars and doors.

His works often call into question issues of police violence and authoritarianism exercised against youth and communities of color, as well as highlight vernacular language, architecture, and food culture associated with the urban lexicon.

With a broad range of materials including ceramics, Duke creates representational and abstract compositions and installations that use patterns, shapes, and structures from American vernacular architecture and the tools and objects of industry.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.

This London - based solo exhibition records an ongoing concern with the notion of architecture as an environment for recreation, in a new body of work that contrasts the modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Brohm's study of vernacular German allotment buildings of the late 1970s, Typology.

Artist Statement: Though the image of the heroic American agrarian has been obscured by an industrial model, the «human interface» — and the implied connection to the land — remains an icon, along with pastoral vistas, vernacular architecture, and the family farm.

Recognized throughout his career with honors and awards, Blackwell received a 2012 AIA National Honor Award and the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a unique use of design strategies that draw upon vernaculars and contradictions of place to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture.

Using personal photographs of southern vernacular architecture, namely from Georgia (where the artist was raised) and Hale County, Alabama (a location associated with much of Walker Evans» depression - era photographs), Poor's -LSB-...]

The masonry - framed windows of Harlem's vernacular architecture nd an echo in the rhythmic composition of the facade, with its textured, precast concrete and windows of varying proportions.

Voisine's works are imbued with the elegant vernacular of architecture to delineate boundaries, expose points of access or exit, and enable his viewers to interact with his defined spaces.

While embracing traditional farmstead design made it trickier for this new build home in the Scottish Highlands to meet the coveted passive house standard, mixing modern standards of super-insulation with vernacular farmhouse architecture ultimately led to the creation of a very special home for proprietors Jeanette and Jon Fenwick — one that picked up a coveted UK Passivhaus Award in 2016.