What is Vernacular Architecture? The Local Traditional Architecture. Local / Traditional/ conventional Handmade/ low tech/ Self help/ craftsmen/ no engineers Differences from historical Architecture
	Why? Revolution against Modernism Wasted Aesthetic Values Nationalism, dignity Economic/ domestic technology Local Climatic Adaptation (passive techniques) Well known, locally accepted. Attractive for tourism, defines an (Ethnic) atmosphere Double encoding and symbolic metaphors
	Why not? Retarded, Low quality: less durable, Cracks, pests… Against people ambitions Symbol of the Past (sometimes Symbol of the dead!)
	Vernacular Architecture of the world Western vernacular architecture Natural Materials: Wooden pitched roofs, Wood or brick walls. Wood windows African vernacular Architecture Mali, Burkina Faso, Nubia, Morocco Earth vernacular housing: Recycling buildings, Arabic-Islamic vernacular Architecture Aseer, Yemen. Tunis, Bosnia, Montenero
	Egyptian vernacular Architecture Egyptian vernacular Rural mud-brick housing Neo-Vernacular Egyptian Architecture The Godfathers: Remises Wisa wasef and Hassan Fat'hy: Hassan Fat'hy: The genius question! Housing for poor…. Or housing for rich! Al-Gourna: the complexity of sociological aspects in Architecture.   New Gourna Village - Luxor - 1946      New Gourna Boys' School   New Gourna Girls' School   New Gourna's Current Status Ramsees Wisa Wasef, the success with the society Mud bricks: Building from earth that gets back to earth   Harraniya Craft Village - Giza - 1940
	We can see Vernacular Architecture in the West Desert: Tenneda located in el Dakhlah Oasis,West Desert. Sendadaya located in el Kargah Oasis,West Desert. Top