Sustainable Vernacular Architecture: How the Past Can Enrich the Future

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Contested Legacies: is vernacular architecture really sustainable?.- Chapter 3. Vernacular Architecture in the MENA Region: Review of Bioclimatic Strategies and Analysis of Case Studies.- Chapter 4. Vernacular Architecture in Portugal: Regional Variation.- Chapter 5. Seeking Contemporary Urban Comfort through Vernacular Architectural Principles in Hot Arid Climate.- Chapter 5. Seeking Contemporary Urban Comfort through Vernacular Architectural Principles in Hot Arid Climate.- Chapter 6. The Royal Palace of Gödöllö / Gödöllö Palace as a typical example of Vernacular Architecture in Hungary.- Chapter 7. Typological analysis of vernacular residential buildings in moderate-humid Climate of North Iran.- Chapter 8. From Genius Loci to Sustainability: Conciliating between the Spirit of Place and the Spirit of time A Case Study on the Old city of Al-Salt.- Chapter 9. Urban planning enriched by its representations, from perspective to thermography.- Chapter 10. Vernacular Architecture as model to design a prototype for affordable housing in Mosul.- Chapter 11. Hausa Traditional Architecture.- Chapter 12. The intangible resources of vernacular architecture for the development of A green and circular economy.- Chapter 13. Enhancing environmental performance of vernacular architecture.A case study.- Chapter 14. Climatic Adaptations of Colonial School Buildings in Malaysia.- chapter 15. Sustainability Principles and Features Learned from Vernacular Architecture: Guidelines for Future Developments Globally and in Egypt.- Chapter 16. Contemporary roof design concepts: learning from vernacular architecture.- Chapter 17.Early-design strategies for passive cooling of buildings Lessons learned from Italian Archetypes.- Chapter 18. Traditional buildings back to the future. Building use as energy Retrofit criterion for renovation.- Chapter 19. Conclusion.