The AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community (HCD) is a network of architects and allied stakeholders that promotes equity in housing, excellence in residential design, and sustainable, vibrant communities for all, through education, research, awards, and advocacy.
This webinar is part of a series sponsored by the Housing Knowledge Community on AIA KnowledgeNet. Traditional houses in Yunnan have deep cultural significance quite different from anything one encounters in the United States. Within Yunnan, different regions and ethnicities have distinctive local housing traditions, which are defined by particular building techniques, materials, spatial designs, and ornamentation. Embedded in vernacular housing are ideas about gender, power, religion, and moral values. In addition, Yunnan houses reflect the particular productive and social activities for which they are intended, be it farming, feasting, or increasingly, housing wage laborers. Houses also bear witness to the radical historical transformations of this region over the last century. In this webinar, we will review some of these key features of Yunnan houses and consider their particular meanings, as well as discuss how houses have changed in recent years with the decline of farming and the rising importance of the market economy. Register for the webinar. Attendees can earn 1 AIA LUs.
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