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Approaches in The Study of Vernacular Architecture
Approaches in The Study of Vernacular Architecture
ARCHITECTURE
APPROACHES TO VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
Eg: In India house typologies are huge as they adopt a joint family
system.
Houses are grouped together in large numbers in clusters reflecting
their behavioural pattern.
ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH
Rudolf Steiner'sThe
Second Goetheanum, 1924-1928, in
Basel, Switzerland, is an example of Le Corbusier's chapel at
architectural Expressionism. Ronchamp, Notre Dame
MODERN APPROACH
Walter Gropius – Machine Aesthetics
Charles Correa
– in
Apartments
Mumbai
Aimed to enhance
quality of habitation
without minimizing
the prototypes and
interpretation of the
poetic sensibility of
Architecture.
MODERN APPROACH
Bernard Exhibition on “Architecture without Architects” in 1964 went
beyond picturesque and conveyed the following:
• Qualities induced
• Human Scale
• Great Views
• Visual Richness
• Features which heightened social interaction