Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World

I have to admit to thinking “where do I start here?” when asked to review the Atlas of Vernacular Architecture (AVAW), but as I read it became easy to see where. This book does what it says on the tin and looks at vernacular architecture trends across the world using cartography.

AVAW augments the previously published Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (EVAW) (Oliver, 1997), which won the Sir Bannister Fletcher Award in 1998. There are 69 maps in AVAW that illustrate all sections of volume one of EVAW. It is stated that...