Viewpoint: Building Stories: Narrative Prospects for Vernacular Architecture Studies

Discusses how some storytellers on the Vernacular Architecture Forum have explored historic architecture in their work; they include Charles E. Pattillo III ("St Dunstan's & John"), Dan Brown, Ken Follett, James Deetz, Allan Pred, Lisa C Tolbert, and Dell Upton. This storytelling...

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Published in:Buildings & landscapes 2011-09, Vol.18 (2), p.1-14
Main Author: Smith, Ryan K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeology
Architectural design
Architecture
Book publishing
Churches
Demos, John
Museums
Nationalism
Protection and preservation
Slavery
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Summary:Discusses how some storytellers on the Vernacular Architecture Forum have explored historic architecture in their work; they include Charles E. Pattillo III ("St Dunstan's & John"), Dan Brown, Ken Follett, James Deetz, Allan Pred, Lisa C Tolbert, and Dell Upton. This storytelling approach to vernacular architecture can be difficult and inefficient, however, and there is a middle ground between it and "dry recitation of architectural design facts"; this is "landscape storytelling". One form of this is the "imagined vignette", in which the researcher describes a hypothetical scene within the broader study; another is the "researcher's journey", which is closer to a fully-fledged story; and a third form is the "frame", which is a bookend or thematic thread.
ISSN:1936-0886
1934-6832
1934-6832
DOI:10.1353/bdl.2011.0020