In his opening essay of this issue of C3 magazine, Jaap Dawson calls the modern vernacular an oxymoron. The rules modern architecture follows negate those very rules that lead to vernacular buildings.
Furthermore, Maurizio Scarciglia points out the fictional experience created by today’s tourism topologies as being vernacular escapism. The issue goes on to explore the thought behind distinctions such as these through examples and analyses of contemporary buildings with vernacular characteristics.
