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Human dwelling construction culture has been strongly shaped over time by the characteristics of the territories and of the local people, who gradually established building methods that cumulated perfect adaptations to specific geographies and socio-economic needs. This type of construction – called later on “vernacular architecture” – was built most of the times by the same people that were using it as housing, utilizing materials found in the vicinity. This “Non-pedigreed Architecture” – renamed so by Bernard Ru...