Small and humble, with space-saving outdoor staircases, Sunday Houses provided in-town weekend sleeping space. The Texas Hill Country gave birth to one of America’s unique vernacular house styles: the ...

After a divorce, architect Dominic Stevens found himself in need of a not-too-spendy place to live -- one that steered clear of the mortgage market -- so he designed a three-bedroom house that was as ...

The initiative is supported by the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan, and is delivered in close collaboration with the Center for Architectural Documentation (Pusat Dokumentasi ...

The gable-ell was a popular house style between 1895 and 1915. Named for its two intersecting gables that created a roughly L-shaped footprint, it was a “vernacular” house, which meant that any ...

In the village of Huang Chun, in the province of Anhui, a wealthy Chinese pawnbroker named Huang commissioned an elaborate house of wood and stone more than a century ago. He called it Yin Yu Tang, or ...

Members of the Chesapeake region of the Vernacular Architecture Forum visited the Beatty-Cramer House in Frederick County. The Vernacular Architecture Forum is the premier organization in North ...

Although the Chimney House is a thoroughly contemporary design, the home’s aesthetic pays homage to the area’s traditional farmhouse vernacular. Designed by Dekleva Gregoric Architects, the home in ...

William Baker launched the Dallas Shotgun Project with the goal of photographing and documenting all of the remaining examples in the city. In Dallas, shotgun houses have become an endangered ...

Before the advent of air conditioning and local building codes, any hope of living through a Lowcountry summer meant coming to terms with heat and humidity and finding how best take advantage of the ...