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Architecture vernaculaire

The vernacular architecture of France

The CERAV and the studies on the drystone architecture of France: an assessment of a decade of research and publication (1977-1987)

The vernacular architecture of Périgord and higher Quercy

The vernacular architecture of Gascony and Aquitaine

The vernacular architecture of Bearn and Bigorre

The vernacular architecture of the Centre Region

Architecture de pierre sèche

Drystone huts and private photographs of the first half of the twentieth century

Dating drystone huts from dates inscribed in stone

Is dry stonework earthquake-resistant?

Vaulting, facing and infilling as components of corbelled construction

In Uzège, are ogive-shaped huts earlier in date than pyramid-shaped huts?

The tools of dry stone builders in the Ardèche and Ariège departments (France), in the Catalan and Valencian countries (Spain)

The new myths of dry stone walling (source : http://pierreseche.chez-alice.fr)

The cleitean of the St. Kilda archipelago in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

The caprili of the island of Elba

The tazotas and toufris of the hinterland of El-Jadida, Morocco

Folk traditions

The balancing well in France:
1 - The sweep for drawing water: an overview;
2 - The balancing well through postcards.

MONOGRAPHS

Sheep shelter at a place known as Rains, at Joncy, Saône-et-Loire

Les Cabanes, or Les Savournins Bas, - alias "Le Village des Bories" - at Gordes, Vaucluse

Drystone huts or tsabones at the place known as Le Crousas in Vals-Près-Le-Puy, Haute-Loire

The "Cabanes du Breuil" at Saint-André-d'Allas, Dordogne

The upper-floor dwelling of the Savournins hamlet or "Village des Bories" at Gordes, Vaucluse

NEWS

Quebec builds its first drystone cabanon!

REVIEWS

Architecture vernaculaire

Borut Juvanec, Kozolec (Structures used for drying hay in Slovenia)

Architecture de pierre sèche

Michel Rouvière, How to restore terrace-supporting walls

Prof. Borut Juvanec, Dry Stone Story

Michel Rouvière, The importance of drystone construction in the aesthetic appeal of Ardéchois landscapes

Michel Rouvière, Wine cellars and vaults

QUESTIONS &ANSWERS

Coping of horizontal slabs

Main settlements of the Fontbouisse culture group

The nawamis of Sinaï (1)

The nawamis of Sinaï (2)