Browsing by Subject "Vernacular Architecture"
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(2023-01-23)The impacts of global climate change on the designed and built environment have accelerated in the twenty-first century, leading contemporary architects to reconsider conventional building practices. For many centuries, ...
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(Archaeological Institute of America, 2019)The Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Kavousi Vronda, located in the northern foothills of the Thriphti mountain range in eastern Crete, consisted of about twenty houses clustered in complexes around the slopes and summit of ...
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(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2014)Ancient Greek domestic architecture has been a topic of interest from the perspectives of both ancient literary texts and modern archaeological fieldwork. Scholarship has advanced from a focus on house forms described by ...
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(2020-02-27)Houses of worship formed the backbone of colonial society in the New World. They functioned both as sites of religious devotion as well as spaces of social interactions–merging the sacred and secular. The Lowcountry of ...
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(K.T. Glowacki, 2010)Excavations at the archaeological site of Kavousi Vronda in eastern Crete brought to light a small rural settlement dating to the LM IIIC period (12th-early 11th centuries B.C.). At the time of abandonment, the settlement ...
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(15th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, 2012)The island of Crete has a long tradition of stone masonry construction, beginning over 8000 years before present. As noted by architectural historians, the vernacular architecture of modern (pre-World War II) villages on ...
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(2020-05-17)Vernacular architecture is closely linked to both time and place and reflects what most people in a community or region consistently build and use, working with local materials, and traditional techniques and forms. It is ...
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(Archaeology & Art Publications, 2014)The built environment of Late Minoan IIIC Crete (c. 1200–1050 BCE) offers a striking contrast to the formal and often monumental architecture that characterizes the palaces, villas, and settlements of the preceding Neopalatial ...
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(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2013)Following the collapse of the Minoan Palatial system and the abandonment of most coastal settlements on Crete in the late 13th century BC, new self- sufficient villages were established at a number of upland sites in the ...
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(2009)Preliminary virtual reconstruction of the archaeological site of Kavousi Vronda in eastern Crete, Greece. This video segment tours part of the Late Minoan IIIC settlement, beginning with Building I-O-N on the western slope ...