Chicago-based Studio Becker Xu separated a vernacular dogtrot house parti to create a set of concrete pavilion-like blocks ...
Therefore, the shape of the houses was inspired by the preexisting vernacular wooden Cambodian houses sitting on the street, ready for the needs of working families and retired households.
The research addresses the tendency toward vernacular obsolescence in rural China by identifying ... these self-builders have developed intelligent solutions for updating their old houses. The results ...
Rudofsky introduced the term "vernacular architecture" to describe what he called "non-pedigreed architecture" - the houses and settlements of people who have no special claim to power or privilege.