In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditi

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"New Vernacular Architecture considers the synthesis of modernity and tradition in contemporary architecture. Focusing on 37 international examples of buildings

In the last decades Western architecture has largely dominated the discourse and the built environment worldwide. Recently architecture firms from non-Western c