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Vernacular Architecture

The vernacular architecture of France

The CERAV and the studies on the dry stone 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

A new myth: ancestral architecture

Dry stone Architecture

Dry stone huts and private photographs of the first half of the twentieth century

Dating dry stone 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.

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

Dry stone 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

Turf-covered stone hut at Prats-de-Mollo, Pyrénées-Orientales

Quebec builds its first dry stone cabanon!

Vernacular Architecture

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

Dry stone Architecture

Michel Rouvière, How to restore terrace-supporting walls

Prof. Borut Juvanec, Dry Stone Story

Prof. Borut Juvanec, Cabanes en France (an exhibition catalogue)

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

Michel Rouvière, Wine cellars and vaults

Prof. Borut Juvanec, Joya in piedra / Jewel in stone

Coping of horizontal slabs

Main settlements of the Fontbouisse culture group

The nawamis of Sinaï (1)

The nawamis of Sinaï (2)