The Barn and Its Others

The Barn and its others considers the architecture of the barn building in its potential relations of alterity to a contemporary building project. As a vernacular, the constructional logic of “the barn” instantiates a mode of design thinking in response to specific cultural and geographic conditions. Although in its spectrum of typological and material systems barns offer a rich array of systematic parameters of identification relative to the environment, structural design, spatial organization and performance in the landscape of a locality, the historical repetition and displacements of the type and its situational variants point to the dynamic nature of the vernacular.