{"id":764,"date":"2024-04-07T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/?p=764"},"modified":"2024-04-07T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:13:03","slug":"2010-an-affection-for-the-australian-built-vernacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/2010-an-affection-for-the-australian-built-vernacular\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 \u2022 An Affection for the Australian Built Vernacular"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"879\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"33%\">AN AFFECTION FOR THE AUSTRALIAN VERNACULAR<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"33%\">The Macquarie Australian Dictionary lists eleven potential meanings \/ uses of the word \u2018vernacular\u2019. The most common usage of the word relates to language, and to a common form of approach and taste; i.e. \u2018\u2026a native or peculiar to popular taste, as a style of architecture\u2019. This personal reflection given in a talk to the NMA Friends in 2010 traced my affection for the Australian vernacular, by means of text and image relating to journeys, dwellings, and research.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"33%\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-769\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D1_1835_mickeyofulladulla_a128453h-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-769\" title=\"D1_1835_mickeyofulladulla_a128453h-web\" src=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D1_1835_mickeyofulladulla_a128453h-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D1_1835_mickeyofulladulla_a128453h-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D1_1835_mickeyofulladulla_a128453h-web-210x157.jpg 210w, https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D1_1835_mickeyofulladulla_a128453h-web.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1835 drawing by the Indigenous artist mickey of ulladulla from SLoNSW no. a128453h<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-773\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D10_elyard_waterview_detail-web1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-773\" title=\"D10_elyard_waterview_detail-web\" src=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D10_elyard_waterview_detail-web1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D10_elyard_waterview_detail-web1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D10_elyard_waterview_detail-web1-210x146.jpg 210w, https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D10_elyard_waterview_detail-web1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from c1870 sketch by Samuel Elyard of the Sydney Harbour shores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D12_1857c.edwardForde.Ballina.ML_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-775\" title=\"D12_1857c.edwardForde.Ballina.ML\" src=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D12_1857c.edwardForde.Ballina.ML_-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D12_1857c.edwardForde.Ballina.ML_-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D12_1857c.edwardForde.Ballina.ML_-210x137.jpg 210w, https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/D12_1857c.edwardForde.Ballina.ML_.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1857 watercolour by the surveyor \/ artist Edward Forde at the Ballina Heads ML SLoNSW<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN AFFECTION FOR THE AUSTRALIAN VERNACULAR The Macquarie Australian Dictionary lists eleven potential meanings \/ uses of the word \u2018vernacular\u2019. The most common usage of the word relates to language, and to a common form of approach and taste; i.e. \u2018\u2026a native or peculiar to popular taste, as a style of architecture\u2019. This personal reflection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}