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This work in progress is a research initiative by Gabriel Arboleda, a doctoral student of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Total pages published so far: 7788.
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NUMBER 10
Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914)
September 13, 2007
The Picket Fence
One time there was a picket fence
with space to gaze from hence to thence.

An architect who saw this sight
approached it suddenly one night,

removed the spaces from the fence,
and built of them a residence.

The picket fence stood there dumbfounded
with pickets wholly unsurrounded,

a view so loathsome and obscene,
the Senate had to intervene.

The architect, however, flew
to Afri- or Americoo.
"Architecture is more than just the development of products for a market. It is about space and place, home and community, body and memory, earth and sky.
It is for people, for their whole lives..." - C. Davies.
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A shot from the corner of 34th Street and the Boulevard, in front of the Children's Hospital.
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Ruen Norn or living module of a Central Thailand traditional house. This particular model is a demonstrative structure housed at the Arts and Crafts Village in Bangsai, Thailand. The model…
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When asked about their distinctive architectural types the Secoya mention two, named Huetara Huë'e and Tui'que Huë'e. The Huetara Huë'e, models of which have not been built in at least…
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Great architectural diversity despite the country's relatively small size (being one of South America's smallest countries). This is connected to Ecuador's varied topography, as the steep Andean mountain system divides…
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Traditional architecture in the era of the Web 2.0. An Internet database of traditional buildings.
January 26, 2007
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Two contrasting (or complementary?)
structures near Bangkok's Chinatown.
Abstract of Ethnoarchitecture.com's official introduction at the Tenth Conference of IASTE in Bangkok.
An excerpt: This paper introduces and further discusses an initiative to use tools common to what is called "Web 2.0"—those known as weblogs, wikis, commenting, tagging and others—in order to compile, in a participatory way, information on traditional architecture that is either scattered online, published in hard-to-access printed sources, or remains unpublished. The database, available at http://www.ethnoarchitecture.com, is designed to be expanded by the users and freely accessible by researchers, the general public and communities it compiles data about. Read this article
"Ethnoarch Presents" features articles on the topic of traditional, vernacular and ethno architectures. Click here to see all the articles published so far.
 
 
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July 15, 2008 Journal
“Sustainability” and Indigenous Building – Submitting a Paper
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On a paper submission for the IASTE 20th anniversary conference. Click here to read
"Released by Ethnoarchitecture.com" showcases personal - professional notes related to Ethnoarch webmaster's current work. Click here to see all the notes published so far.

 
     
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