Vernacular Architecture/vernacular Architecture - Examples By Region

Famous quotes containing the words architecture, examples and/or region:

    “And when his hours are numbered, and the world
    Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
    Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
    To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
    Built in an age, the mad wind’s night-work,
    The frolic architecture of the snow.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)

    “In the misty mid region of Weir—”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)