Talking about what you didor

What Vernacular Architecture did to me

Reading and Writhing

Inching along

How has this class advanced your knowledge of buildings and the context of their use?

Do you look at buildings differently?

Having spent 14 weeks with the word, what is vernacular?

What meanings does the word conjure for you?

Is vernacular architecture?

A field of study?A way of valuing the unvalued?The last refuge for knaves and scoundrels?

What are some cognates of vernacular?

How might documentation be different

What is different about documentation by historic preservation types and Vernacular Architecture scholars?

Is this a professional stance for you?

Professional organizations with emphasis on explanation of local manifestation.

Re-cycle your documentation. Don’t depend on someone else.

Network with others practicing in world of documentation.Ability to ask for comparable documentationAbility to consider the interacting domains.Art HistoryArchitectureHistory and American StudiesHistoric PreservationLandscape StudiesPopular Culture

Absorb, de-construct, re-combine

Vernacular scholarship at its core is outsider perspective within naturalized paradigms.

To be effective as scholarship it is necessary to understand the explanation forms as they have been articulated.

Read/listen for the rhetoric (contingent) statements implicit in the presentation of fact and theory.

Re-invest the rhetoric with alternative facts or weighting factors.

Speak out, write out.