Buildings & Landscapes-journal Of The Vernacular Architecture Forum

Buildings & Landscapes is the leading source for scholarly work on vernacular architecture of North America and beyond. The journal continues VAF’s tradition of scholarly publication going back to the first Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture in 1982. Published through the University of Minnesota Press since 2007, the journal moved from one to two issues per year in 2009. It began publishing full color images in 2020.

Buildings & Landscapes examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. The journal’s contributors include scholars, students, and practitioners; historians and architectural historians; preservationists, architects, geographers, anthropologists, and folklorists; and others whose work involves documenting, analyzing, and interpreting vernacular forms. The journal advances these diverse approaches to built environments as windows into human life and culture, basing scholarship on both fieldwork and archival research. The editors particularly welcome submission of articles on topics related to the study of North American vernacular architecture or that otherwise broaden the context of North American architecture and cultural landscapes.