Vernacular Architecture Forum Publications
BUILDINGS & LANDSCAPES
Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
News
At its meeting in Chicago in November 2006, the Board of Directors
of the Vernacular Architecture Forum voted to change the name of the VAF's
journal, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, to Buildings
and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. The
Board made this change in response to suggestions from members for over
two years. A possible name change was discussed at the previous board
meeting in New York in June, and since June members of the board had sought
out ideas from VAF members.
The new name reflects the way the journal has evolved, and how the VAF
Board and journal editors would like it to continue to evolve: into the
primary North American journal that is dealing with the everyday built
world as a whole, inclusive of buildings in the context of their physical
and cultural settings.
PVA has been ably led by a long series of editors, beginning with Camille
Wells and most recently, before the current editors, Pam Simpson and Jan
Jennings. Buildings& Landscapes will continue the volume numbering
of PVA, but most importantly will continue the tradition, set by those
earlier editors, of publication of the best peer-reviewed scholarship
in the field. We see this change as a natural evolution as the VAF is
itself evolving, and we look forward to the continuation of Buildings
& Landscapes as a respected journal that is inclusive of diverse
methodologies, historical periods, geographic areas and types of buildings
and landscapes.
Call for Articles
From commercial buildings in American Chinatowns to seasonal communities
in Idaho, from linoleum flooring in middle-class kitchens to garrets housing
urban slaves, from farmsteads to urban tenements, vernacular architecture
and its settings shape everyday life. Charged with dense cultural meanings
that speak to both makers and users, buildings, towns, and landscapes
comport behavior, shape identity, orchestrate ritual, and negotiate social
relationships.
The editors of the Vernacular Architecture Forum's scholarly refereed
journal, Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of he Vernacular Architecture
Forum, invite submissions of articles that explore the ways vernacular
architecture constructs the everyday. Our subject matter includes all
aspects of vernacular architecture
and everyday urban and rural landscapes seen through interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary methods. The editors encourage the submission of
articles on topics within and beyond North America. We are particularly
interested in articles that incorporate field work as a component of the
research.
Buildings & Landscapes has recently changed from a bi-annual
volume to an annual journal, and will become semi-annual in 2009. It is
not necessary for articles to have been presented at VAF annual meetings.
All scholars in the field are eligible to submit manuscripts.
Manuscripts should be prepared to conform
to the Chicago Manual of Style. Contributors agree that manuscripts submitted
to Buildings & Landscapes will not be submitted for publication
elsewhere while under review by the journal. Two hard copies of the manuscript
and photocopied reproductions of the illustrations should be sent directly
to each of the two editors. Please feel free to direct any inquiries to
either editor via email:
Howard Davis
Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
1206 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1206
hdavis@uoregon.edu
Louis P. Nelson
Assistant Professor of Architectural History
School of Architecture
Campbell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4122
Lnelson@virginia.edu
Previous editions of the "Vernacular Architecture News" is available online.
The Vernacular Architecture Newsletter keeps members of the Vernacular Architecture Forum informed about upcoming events, project and grant offerings, new publications, related meetings and conferences, and job openings. Feature articles will be published on this site from time to time. Published quarterly, each VAN also contains new contributions to a "virtual" bibliography relating to vernacular architecture that we have been compiling this way over the years. The bibliography is available through the special programs section. The editor, Marvin Brown , can provide more information on writing articles for the VAN.
Special Series in Vernacular Architecture
The Vernacular Architecture Forum's Special Series
in Vernacular Architecture was established in 2002 as a way of encouraging
and supporting the production of books that introduce, clarify, and explore
central issues in vernacular architecture studies. Published in conjunction
with the University of Tennessee Press, Special Series volumes target
a wide audience that includes the general public as well as professionals
and students in both academic and public sector communities. Short, tightly-focused,
and well-illustrated studies that can become affordable educational tools
are favored. Preferred topics range widely, from practical instruction
in field survey and documentation methods to the critical investigation
of theoretical frameworks that inform thinking within the field.
Authors contract directly with the University
of Tennessee Press and may apply to the VAF Board for funds to offset
the cost of preparing illustrations and acquiring "permission to
publish" rights. The series is guided by an Editorial Board, whose
function is to solicit and review manuscripts as well as shape the direction
of the series more broadly.
Current Volumes
Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Cromley, Invitation to Vernacular
Architecture. A general introduction to the field, working methods, and
theoretical approaches, using real-world examples as case studies
Cary Carson, The English House in America: Seventeenth Century Cultural
Process. Describes how English housing forms were adapted to the New England
and Chesapeake colonies. (Manuscript has been accepted by the Series Editorial
Board; manuscript to be submitted to University of Tennessee Press in
May, 2008)
Thomas Hubka, Naming the Unnamed: Nomenclature in Vernacular Architecture
Studies (preliminary conversations and encouragement to submit a manuscript
to the Editorial Board for consideration).