The Power of Things
Recent Studies in American Vernacular Architecture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2729645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dell Upton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 262 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2712651 |
| OpenAlex | W2332149902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
THE STUDY OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE DIFFERS FROM OTHER ASPECTS of material culture studies treated in this bibliographical issue in two ways. First, the name itself is inadequate, since an increasingly large number of apparently disparate kinds of buildings have been included under its rubric. While the term will be novel and puzzling to many readers, it was first used in the nineteenth century by architectural theorists to refer to traditional rural buildings of the preindustrial era, buildings that were apparently the houses of yeoman farmers and that seemed not to have been consciously designed or affected by the intellectual and artistic currents of the Renaissance.' They were thought to be in some sense gothic or medieval buildings, even though many of the examples cited were built long after the Reformation. Buildings of this sort or their functional equivalents in America-the log houses of the southern mountains and other folk buildings, for example-have continued to be the principal interest of many students of vernacular architecture. In recent years, however, the term has been extended to include less pretentious examples of any current style: mass-produced, middle-class housing such as one might find in any nineteenthor twentieth-century speculative development, industrial buildings, the architecture of fast-food and other commercial franchises-virtually
American studies · Archaeology · Art · Literature · Physics · Power (physics · Sociology · Vernacular · Vernacular architecture · Architecture · Architecture, Design, and Social History · History
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Heritage Conservation, Unesco and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Eastern Canada
Shipwrecks and Storytelling
Irish-Vernacular Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
The Suburban Culture of Building and the Reassuring Revival of Historicist Architecture Since 1970
Identifying a language of space in pre-reform Vietnamese housing
Recording, Publishing, and Reconstructing Wooden Shipwrecks
Seven (1 + 6) surfing stories
Stakeholder Perspectives on the Preservation and Development of Lower Grade Historic Buildings
Recent research in the archaeology of architecture
Sand futures
A feeling for what's best
Taming Chaos
Expertise in rural development
Research Questions for the Archaeology of Rural Places
Building a Framework for Research
Landscapes of Labor
Architecture and rural planning
The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship
Interpreting vernacular space in Ireland
Architectural Frontiers
Towards a material approach in rural geography
Discovering gupta -Vrindavan
An Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Fishing Village
Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife
White Ethnogenesis and Gradual Capitalism
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
| Citations per year | 0.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2026 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |