<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The revival of earthen architecture in the last thirty years has allowed, finally, a project flowering compelling challenges facing society in the XXI century. This earthen modern architecture is determined by the environmental quality of the material: energetic, economical (material widely available) and aesthetical. This new architecture meets also a return to logically reasoned and reasonable by upgrading local resources, not only material available in situ, but also of knowledge and human resources replies architectural and construction in the territories and people they inhabit.</p></abstract>

The revival of earthen architecture in the last thirty years has allowed, finally, a project flowering compelling challenges facing society in the XXI century. This earthen modern architecture is determined by the environmental quality of the material: energetic, economical (material widely available) and aesthetical. This new architecture meets also a return to logically reasoned and reasonable by upgrading local resources, not only material available in situ, but also of knowledge and human resources replies architectural and construction in the territories and people they inhabit.

Vernacular Architecture - Earthen Buildings in Central and Easten Europe

Architect, PhD.c., Romanian National Commission for UNESCO, ICOMOS, Europa Nostra and Future for Religious Heritage

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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The revival of earthen architecture in the last thirty years has allowed, finally, a project flowering compelling challenges facing society in the XXI century....

Vernacular Architecture - Earthen Buildings in Central and Easten Europe

Pubblicato online: 29 gen 2016

Pagine: 34 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbe-2015-0004

Parole chiave
vernacular architecture, Central and Eastern Europe, earthen buildings

© 2015 Popescu Mara et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Vernacular Architecture - Earthen Buildings in Central and Easten Europe

Pubblicato online: 29 gen 2016

Pagine: 34 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbe-2015-0004

Parole chiavevernacular architecture, Central and Eastern Europe, earthen buildings

© 2015 Popescu Mara et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
vernacular architecture, Central and Eastern Europe, earthen buildings