Design and the Vernacular

List of Contributors
Introduction, Paul Memmott and Marcel Vellinga

Part 1: Design Practice and Research Methods in Applying the Vernacular to Contemporary Contexts
1. The Architectural Vernacularisation of Pacific Aid Practice - Charmaine 'Ilaiu Talei, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2. Te Whakapapa o nga Wharenui: A Genealogy of Maori Meeting Houses - Savannah Brown (Ngati Whatua ki Kaipara, Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine, Ngati Wai), Amber Ruckes (Tuhoe), Faye Mendes-Underwood (Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa), Aisea Fanamanu, Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) and Jason Ingham, all Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
3. 'Tropical Architecture': Cultural Collisions and Reverberations in the Vernacular of Aotearoa New Zealand - Jacqueline McIntosh and Bruno Marques, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
4. Linguistics and Architecture, Creolistics and History, or, is Norfolk Island Architecture (a) Creole? - Joshua Nash, founding editor of Some Islands

Part 2: Bridging between Local Cultures and Influences of Modernity
5. Is Vernacular the New Modern? Reflections on Movements, Changes and Preservation in Indonesia - Gabriele Weichart, University of Vienna, Austria
6. Adaptive Uses of Traditional Windbreaks and Bough Shades for Indigenous Housing in Australia - Timothy O'Rourke, University of Queensland, Australia
7. Building on Indigenous Homelands in Arnhem Land since the 1980s: Harnessing Appropriate Technologies and Partnerships as a New Procurement Vernacular - Hannah Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia
8. The Resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge in Adapting Vernaculars: Implications of Climate Change for Rimajol Architectural Traditions - James Miller, Western Washington University, USA
9. Papua New Guinea's Vernacular Architecture, from Relics to Reframing Culture: Kunguma and Tubusereia - R. H. Rusch, J. H. N. Amar and L. A. Armitage, all Bond University, Australia

Part 3: Bridging for Diasporic Peoples
10. Archipelagic Views: Vernacular Transformation and Inter-Colonial Agricultural Trade Networks in the Late 19th Century Asia Pacific - Amanda Achmadi, Karen Burns, and Paul Walker, all University of Melbourne, Australia
11. Hand in Hand with Crossed Top Plates: Mapping the Contribution of Chinese Carpenters to the Production and Installation of Melbourne's Prefabricated 'Singapore Cottages' - John Ting, University of Canberra, Australia
12. Diasporic Vernaculars? Different Australian Commercial Precincts - David Beynon, University of Tasmania, Australia and Ian Woodcock, University of Sydney, Australia
13. Translating Spaces: Speculative Landscape Futures for New Climate Diasporas - Lizzie Yarina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and Penny Allan and Martin Bryant, both University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Part 4: The Vernacular in Postcolonial Modernisation, Politication and Nation-Building
14. Historic Church Vernacular in the Cook Islands: Modernization, Conservation and Change - Carolyn Hill, University of Waikato, New Zealand
15. Appropriating the Native: Shifting Definitions of the Vernacular in Twentieth-Century Philippine Architecture - Edson G. Cabalfin, Tulane University, USA
16. From Cultural Symbol to Societal Sign: The Question of the Kanak Traditional House in Present-Day New Caledonia - Louis Lagarde, University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia and Yves-Bealo Gony, IANCP, New Caledonia

Index