Design and the Vernacular: Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory 设计与白话：对当代建筑实践与理论的解读

《设计与白话》探讨了白话建筑、当地文化、现代性和全球化之间的交叉点，重点关注澳大利亚和大洋洲这一广阔而多样的全球地区。乡土建筑在当代城市规划和建筑设计中的相关性和作用是在快速的政治、经济、技术、社会和环境变化的背景下进行研究的，包括全球化、人员交流、金融、物质文化和数字技术。
建筑师、设计师和理论家（包括土著作家）的十六章探讨了乡土建筑在塑造当代建筑和设计实践中的作用的关键问题。这些问题包括：土著和第一民族的建筑传统是如何塑造现代建筑实践的？乡土建筑研究对可持续发展的争论有什么贡献？乡土建筑是如何被用来为后殖民现代化和国家建设辩护的，对遗产和保护有什么影响？
这些问题为全球其他地区的建筑提供了宝贵的案例研究和经验教训，并挑战了关于乡土建筑过时和静态的假设，相反，它展示了它如何塑造当代建筑、国家建设和文化身份。
Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes, including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies.
Sixteen chapters by architects designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore key questions about the agency of vernacular architecture in shaping contemporary building and design practice. These questions include: How have Indigenous and First Nations building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? And how has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial modernisation and nation-building and what has been the effect on heritage and conservation?
Such questions provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions – and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.