New history and vernacular architecture: Dialogues

Abstract

This paper deals with two areas of academic and, above all, human knowledge – History and Architecture. It is an initial proposal of a comparison? between New History and Vernacular Architecture, movements which have been affirming themselves in their respective fields of knowledge since approximately the decade of 1970. The broadening of the perspective of analysis and their conceptual approaches are addressed through the objects that they deal with: the everyday, the average citizen’s life. This is a proposal of complementarity based on their appropriation of each other. Although admittedly interdisciplinary, they may still seem distant to many researchers and scholars. The paper uses as theoretical and conceptual basis works by different authors, but its central analysis is based on works by Peter Burke and Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Cromley, from History and Architecture, respectively.