In Jersey? Check Out this Lecture!

http://www.northjersey.com/community/events/110553159_Architecture_presentation_is_Dec__7.html

Architecture presentation is Dec. 7

The Verona Historical Society will present "The Mighty Outhouse Presentation" as part of the American Vernacular Architecture Series by Saba Nura, a Verona architect on Dec. 7 in the Verona Community Center ballroom at 7:30 p.m.

The society will have a table at Verona's Fair in the Square on Dec. 4 with books and prints of Verona's past.

For more information,call 973-857-1968.

Online Radio discussion about Vernacular Architecture in Britain

http://www.manxradio.com/newsread.aspx?id=48833

Manx building styles feature in talk

The Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society will hear about the Island's vernacular architecture today (Saturday).

Dr Catriona Mackie from the University of Liverpool Centre for Manx Studies is giving a talk on the subject at the Manx Museum.

Dr Mackie is presenting a paper about the style of buildings on the Island, and their importance when studying the past.

It focuses on the development of the Manx house during the 18th and 19th centuries, and looks at some of the main features of traditional housing on the Island.

Start of talk: 2.30pm.

Call for Papers for Buildings & Landscapes Journal

From commercial buildings in American Chinatowns to seasonal communities in Idaho, from linoleum flooring in middle-class kitchens to garrets housing urban slaves, from farmsteads to urban tenements, vernacular architecture and its settings shape everyday life. Charged with dense cultural meanings that speak to both makers and users, buildings, towns, and landscapes comport behavior, shape identity, orchestrate ritual, and negotiate social relationships.

The editors of Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Archicture Forum invite submissions of articles that explore the ways vernacular architecture constructs the everyday. Our subject matter includes all aspects of vernacular architecture and everyday urban and rural landscapes seen through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methods. The editors encourage the submission of articles on topics within and beyond North America. We are particularly interested in articles that incorporate field work as a component of the research.

Buildings & Landscapes appears twice a year. All scholars in the field are eligible to submit manuscripts; it is not necessary for articles to have been presented at VAF annual meetings. Articles submitted to Buildings & Landscapes will be assessed using a double-blind peer review process; manuscripts should not be submitted for publication elsewhere while under review by the journal.

Manuscripts should conform to Author Guidelines (and The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition). Please send electronic copies of completed articles (approximately 25 pages of text) with illustrations (15-20) and bibliographic endnotes to both editors. Alternatively, two hard copies of the manuscript and photocopied reproductions of the illustrations may be sent directly by surface mail. Please feel free to direct any inquiries to either editor via email:

Marta Gutman
Associate Professor of Architecture (History and Theory)
Spitzer School of Architecture
The City College of New York/CUNY
141 Convent Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10031
mgutman@ccny.cuny.edu

Louis P. Nelson
Associate Professor of Architectural History
School of Architecture
Campbell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4122
lnelson@virginia.edu

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2011 Conference: Falmouth, Jamaica

Make your plans to join us in Falmouth, Jamaica, May 31-June 5, 2011! Explore creolized Georgians, early timber framing, free black landscapes, architectures of reclamation, historic preservation and the politics of heritage tourism—and the complex interactions among them.

Registration opens in December

Go here to register:
https://secure.arch.virginia.edu/groups/vaf2011falmouthjamaica/

Questions? Contact Louis Nelson, 2011 Conference Chair, at lnelson@virginia.edu.

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Founded in the 1770s as the major port for the remarkably fertile sugar plantations of Jamaica’s north coast, Falmouth grew dramatically between the sugar boom years of the late eighteenth century and emancipation in 1838. In this period British merchants erected a significant set of houses and stores along the town’s major commercial streets. There also survives a substantial fortification that now serves as the town's public elementary school, numerous nineteenth-century churches, an early courthouse, and a town square centered on a public cistern that provided fresh running water in town by the 1790s.

Emancipation in the 1830s expanded exponentially the number of Falmouth’s free blacks, who had been living in town since its founding. Through the early nineteenth century, free blacks erected a notable set of small frame houses that evolved through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, diversifying the town's built environment in interesting ways. Falmouth is also the host to a handful of spectacular modernist buildings, especially a 1950s Catholic church and a number of reclaimed shipping containers that—once re-purposed—serve today as cheap roadside shops.

Tours will fully explore Falmouth, but will venture out of town as well: Falmouth sits at the edge of a plantation parish with extraordinary landscapes including slave hospitals, sugar works, water mills, and great houses surviving intact.

The 2011 VAF will experience Falmouth and its environs in an extraordinary moment of transformation. In 2008, the Jamaican government signed a contract with Royal Caribbean cruise lines to erect a new 11-acre wharf with the capacity to berth two cruise ships simultaneously; it opens for business in November, 2010. VAFers will visit Falmouth just after the wharf has opened, giving us the opportunity to examine a historic landscape undergoing profound material, social, economic, and political changes.

In Falmouth, Jamaica, VAFers can focus on creolized Georgians, early timber framing, free black landscapes, architectures of reclamation, or historic preservation and the politics of heritage tourism—or the interaction among them. With something for everyone—not least the Caribbean resort hotel where our conference will be based—VAF 2011 promises to be a memorable gathering. We hope you will be there!

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Welcome!

Welcome to the new Vernacular Architecture Forum blog. Our intent is to use this blog to both get more connected with you, our readers, by allowing you to interact with us and to help keep you up to date with what is going on with vernacular architecture around the country.

Please feel free to comment on any post and link any interesting findings that you have come across so that all may enjoy.

Thanks!

VAF Staff