Introduction
Vernacular architecture is identified as an architectural trend in the 1960s. it is characterized by references to local timeless architecture tradition. The search for an architectural language of expression bound with historical, regional tradition can be observed on four main planes of interpretation: cultural, formal, of landscape and detiling. The aim of research done by the authors is to define the relation between the function of a building and the planes of interpretation dominating in their works.
The tradition of european architectural education in the 1950s and 1960s was based upon universal solutions of an international style. Architects educated then seldom looked at native folk architecture whose guidelines on how, where and why to build resulted from wisdom transferred from generation to generation
Among its users, craftsman and masters. As only they were involved in the process of construction, we may speak og architecture without an architect.