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Download 75 times Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu // Topic: Architecture File Size: 32.98 kb // Total of Page: 12 Page(s) Last download by leilam Last download on: 2 weeks ago Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: trends such as vernacular architecture, our group has developed a different line ... The differences between vernacular and academic architecture were not ... Content Inside: PHIL & TECH 2:1 Fall 1996 Alonso, Arzoz, Ursua, Reflections on Architecture/3 REFLECTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE: VERNACULAR AND ACADEMIC MODES IN ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING Andoni Alonso, Inaki Arzoz, and Nicanor Ursua, University of the Basque Country A house -- in American thought -- an apple, an American vineyard hav e nothing in common; house and apple have nothing in common with th e plantings so thoroughly penetrated by the ancestors hopes and concerns . Experienced and animated things, things which share our knowledge, decay and cannot any more be substituted for. Possibly we are the last ones t o have experienced these things. Our responsibility is not only to preserve the memory of them (that would amount to little and be very uncertain); w e must preserve their human, their "fireside" values. --Rainer Maria Rilke INTRODUCTION The paper which we present here is a brief theory-slanted summary of a work, "Contemporary Architecture and Town