Architecture in a Landscape of Unholy Unions

Abstract

Vernacular is difficult to define, but we usually know it when we see it. As landscape became conurbation, and necessity gave way to greater degrees and higher forms of artifice, vernacular forms were subjugated to the products of industry, trades people and professionals. In the production of most domestic, commercial and industrial buildings architects are involved minimally if at all. When they are they' re too often prisoner to repeated conventions that result in a bland contemporary vernacular unworthy of that name.