Vernacular Architecture Forum
- Vernacular Architecture Forum
The Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) is a scholarly organization founded in 1980 to support the study and preservation of all aspects of vernacular architecture and landscapes. The organization has brought together scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines--geography, folklore, architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation and others. The Vernacular Architecture Forum publishes a quarterly newsletter, "Vernacular Architecture Newsletter", holds an annual meeting, conducts tours, and publishes an annual journal, now named "Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum". In 2007, VAF had more than 800 members.
The annual journal of VAF was initiated in 1982 as a series of books titled "Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture" that contained selected papers from the VAF annual meetings. In 2007, the publication was retitled "Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum" reflecting its current formatting as a scholarly journal publishing a wide range of vernacular research.
ee also
* Vernacular Architecture
External links
* [http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org/ Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) official website]
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