Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum

Cover of Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2026: green-tinted photo of women in white blouses reading on a porch, with the title in white and yellow.
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The journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, published twice a year by the University of Minnesota Press. It publishes articles based on fieldwork and archival research about the everyday built world, from houses and farmsteads to churches, courthouses and shopping malls, by historians, preservationists, architects, geographers, anthropologists and others. It is sold by subscription, uses double-blind peer review and does not require authors to be members of the Forum.
Buildings & Landscapes examines the built world that most people experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. Strongly based on fieldwork and archival research that views buildings as windows into human life and culture, articles are written by historians, preservationists, architects, cultural and urban geographers, cultural anthropologists, and others involved with the documentation, analysis, and interpretation of the built world.

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