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Paul Hereford Oliver
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OLIVER, Paul. Built to meet needs: cultural issues in vernacular architecture. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2006. 475 pp.
Acknowledgements vii
List of illustrations xi
Introduction xxi
Part I: Defining the field
1 - Why study vernacular architecture? (1978) - 3
2 - The importance of the study of vernacular architecture (1993) - 17
3 - Problems of definition and praxis (1999) - 27
Part II: Cultures and contexts
4 - Learning from Asante (2000) - 47
5 - Cultural traits and environmental contexts: Problems of cultural specificity and cross-cultural comparability (1999) - 55
6 - Huizhou and Herefordshire: A comparative study (2001) - 69
7- Tout confort: Culture and comfort (1986) - 87
Part III: Tradition and transmission
8 - Vernacular know-how (1982) - 109
9- Earth as a building material today (1983) - 129
10 - Handed down architecture: Tradition and transmission (1989) - 143
11- Technology transfer: A vernacular view (2003) - 163
Part IV: Cultures, disasters and dwellings
12 - The cultural context of shelter provision (1978) - 185
13 - Earthen housing and cultures in seismic areas (1984) - 197
14 - Factors affecting the acceptability of resettlement housing (1984) - 223
15 - Rebirth of a Rajput village (1992) - 247
Part V: Conservation and continuity
16 - Conserving the vernacular in developing countries (1986) - 267
17 - Re-presenting and representing the vernacular: The open-air museum (2001) - 287
18 - Perfect and plain: Shaker approaches to design (1990) - 315
Part VI: Suburbs and self-builders
19 - Individualizing Dunroamin (1992) - 333
20 - Round the houses (1983) - 349
21 - Kaluderica: High-grade housing in an illegal settlement (1989) - 365
Part VII: Meeting the challenge of the twenty-first century
22 - Tradition by itself (2000) - 383
23 - Ethics and vernacular architecture (2000) - 395
24 - Necessity and sustainability: The impending crisis (2002) - 411
Conferences and publications - 427
Index - 431
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