Buildings & Landscapes�examines the built world-houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys�churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls�that make up the spaces that most people experience every day. Strongly based on fieldwork and archival work that views buildings as windows into human life and culture, articles are written by historians, preservationists, architects, cultural and urban geographers, cultural anthropologists, and others whose work involves the documentation, analysis and interpretation of the built world. Formerly titled�Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture,�Buildings & Landscapes�is presently an annual publication that will begin publishing two issues a year beginning in 2009.
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