Pencil sketch of a two part door with a small hole near the bottom that has an opening flap secured by a toggle. The doorway has an ogee-shaped head.
Ogee-headed door lintel and cat flap on a probable meal house at Plas Penmynydd. I had my lunch in a greenhouse formed from a pigsty attached to this building at the 2018 Vernacular Architecture Group conference on Anglesey.
#VernacularArchitecture
#ArchitecturalIllistration
#pencil #drawing
14 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, east London. Built in 1726 by master carpenter and architect William Taylor, who was its first resident #london #spitalfields #eastlondon #heritage #architecture #georgian #18thcentury #redbrick #windows #sashwindows #churchstreet #vernaculararchitecture
Spotting the vernacular details of historic Launceston c1900
#vernaculararchitecture #archaeology #historicbuildings
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An Igbo compound entrance, in or near Önïcha. Photographed by Herbert Wimberley, c. 1903-18. Cambridge University Library. #TraditionalIgbo #IgboCulture #IgboHeritage #AfricanArchitecture #VernacularArchitecture
Wooden house, 5 bays wide, on raised piers with the floor about a meter above ground level. A front porch or gallery in front under the roof supported by columns with a central staircase leading to the front door at the center of the front. On each side of the front door are pairs of windows. The doors and windows all have open shutters painted teal. The front wall is painted light yellow, the rest is painted white. A single dormer window is upstairs centered over the doorway. A flag of purple green and gold flys from beside the doorway, marking Carnival or Mardi Gras season.
Zimpel Street, Carrollton historic district, New Orleans.
Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans, February 2026
#NewOrleans #NOLAsky #VernacularArchitecture
A narrow, traditional stone-paved street in the old town of Bansko, flanked by historic houses, leading toward the snow-capped Vihren peak in the Pirin Mountains.
Spatial harmony: the connection between architecture and nature.
#Photography #Architecture
#VernacularArchitecture #Bulgaria #History
A close-up view of a traditional 19th-century Bulgarian house in Bansko. The facade features white-washed stone walls on the ground floor and dark wood on the upper level. A prominent wooden chardak (balcony) with intricate carvings is visible on the right. Below the upper windows, there is a horizontal band of hand-painted floral ornaments in blue, red, and green colors.
The 19th-century Bulgarian soul. 🎨 Hand-painted ornaments and masterfully carved wood represent the peak of the National Revival era. Every detail in Bansko's old houses carries the pulse of a bygone century.
#Bansko #Bulgaria #19thCentury #ArtHistory #Heritage #History #VernacularArchitecture
Old stone wall with circular markings in a close grouping
Old stone wall with a deep circular marking in carved into it with curved lines coming out from the centre of the circle to the edge
A series of carvings - each has three straight lines that meet in a point at the top. Almost like an arrow pointing up but the lines are all equal length.
Old stone wall with faint circular markings in a close grouping
I walked to the Tithe Barn in Bradford on Avon yesterday. It’s 5 mins from home and has these wonderful apotropaic marks. They’re everywhere down there, if you look closely. The angular lines are about 10-12 feet from the ground.
#ApotropaicMarks #Folklore #MaterialCulture #VernacularArchitecture
Pencil drawing of three-storey buildings with shops on the ground floor, a medieval city gate with a decorative facade and a number of people walking and cycling in the street.
Goodramgate & Monk Bar, York. Buildings of the 14th, 17th & 18th centuries, most of them cloaked in later fabric, including a former coaching inn that ran coaches to Malton & Pickering.
#VernacularArchitecture
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
On the base of a wall made of old and uneven bricks and stones is a row of unclaimed plant pots. On the right is an alley which disappears under an arch.
We would all be happier if we filled our towns and cities with well tended plant pots.
🏛️Paciano, Umbria.
#photography #VernacularArchitecture
A curving alley enclosed by three storey high brick building.
Curving alley, Panicale, Umbria
#VernacularArchitecture #Photography
Scheele-Brown Farmhouse - 1865 historic farmhouse, located at 2207 Foxhall Road NW, amazing mural art by @niaketurah #kfrontdesigns #photography #iphonephotography #farmhouse #historicbuildings #washingtondc #muralart #dchistoryandculture #greekrevivalarchitecture #vernaculararchitecture
A small house made of stone with entrance door (reaches by a set of stairs) is hidden by a blue striped drape.
The wall that became a house.
Chiusi, Tuscany / Toscana. Italy.
#photography #VernacularArchitecture
I’ve always admired the creamy yellow brick houses of southern Ontario—simple, agrarian in form, rooted in farmhouse archetypes. Some are altered, but the vernacular character and straightforward design still shine in small towns across the region. #vernaculararchitecture
Climate disruption threatens Burkina Faso's painted heritage houses:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/...
#climate #burkinafaso #eartharchitecture #heritage #climatechange […]
Still reveling in the afterglow of Berlin's rowdy and intimate late nights, cafes just after sunrise, and how you can almost always hear the leaves blowing in a gentle breeze. 🌞
#berlin
#oursky
#sonyalpha
#photographer
#travelphotography
#vernaculararchitecture
Soft pastel painting of a New England street - in green and blue hues.
A Glance Down That Street
12 x 7.5 soft pastel on sanded paper
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#softpastel #urbanlandscape #softpastelpainting #urbanlandscapepainting #pastel #pastelpainting #streetscapepainting #urbanpainting #cityscapepainting #newenglandart #art #blueskyart #boston #newengland #vernaculararchitecture
First analyses of our day in #Kanasin #Yucatan working on #urbanmorphology #vernaculararchitecture #landscape #urbanism #urbanecology and #urban #heritage for #sustainable #planning taking cue from #Maya #traditions & #adaptation. Some areas still show characteristics of productive #solares #huertos
Today, meeting the #comisaria de #Komchen a growing town north of #Merida. Three teams working on the #mapping and sampling of #urbanfabric from edge to edge, a team on #urban #ethnography and #vernaculararchitecture and a team on #publicparticipation with interviews. Working on #sustainableplanning
...to warm the spaces for people, so may lead to overheating in hotter summers. ☀️
Lessons will be useful for new builds today and the landscaping that surrounds them.
#vernaculararchitecture #historicchurch #heatwave #midsummer
A house typical of Germany's Bergisches Land. One side has characteristic slate siding, another has visible timber framing warped with age. The doors and windows have white molding. The roof is steeply pitched. It is probably 200 or 300 years old.
"A Bergisch House"
Digital photo, Witzhelden.
#digitalphotography #blackandwhite #BergischesLand #Germany #vernaculararchitecture #architecture #architecturalphotography
Looking forward to the opening of our @varchgroup.bsky.social VAF book exhibit on Saturday. Please stop by the Executive Board Room (off the lobby) and check out all the wonderful books we have for you this year! #vaf2025 #vernaculararchitecture
Narrow, shadowy alley paved with olden stone and lined with tall masonry vernacular buildings. In the distance there are tile rooftops. The left side of the alley is dimly lit, while the right side is totally in shadow.
Jade's camera captures Athens' residential apartment buildings on a sunny early September day. The sky is of the lightest blue. It shines down onto many outstretched awnings that cover balconies teeming with plant life.
I love #vernaculararchitecture. The rich little details say much about how people spend their days and live their lives, with echoes left all over cities they've inhabited. What cities have enchanted you? 🌆
#athens
#sonya7ii
#travelphotography
#architecture
#cityscape
I picked up Pt1 of Monmothshire Houses by Cyril Fox & Lord Raglan recently, unaware that it was seemingly Brunskill’s copy. It made me reflect on this books journey, providing inspiration & academic sounding for one of the most notable scholars in vernacular architecture 🙌🏼
#vernaculararchitecture
Anyone planning on attending the Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Wilmington, DE this May?
#vernaculararchitectureforum #vaf #vernaculararchitecture
#culturalresourcemanagement #historicpreservation #historicpreservationprofessionals #architecturalhistory #preservationplanning
Currently working on conserving a lovely vernacular building in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia) in Wales and came across these. Is wondering what they are or represent? #heritage #history #vernaculararchitecture #culture #buildingconservation
Through a scrolling white-painted metal railing, a blue painted metal fire escape ladder with scrolling cut-outs in the risers, set where two white walls meet.
Old Athens: white and blue
#UrbanPhotography #VernacularArchitecture
Transverse Crib Barn with a Gambrel Roof in Sabine Parish, Louisiana (2021). I love barns! #barn #rurallife #folkarchitecture #louisiana #vernaculararchitecture
