ABSTRACT This paper investigates the vernacular architecture of the Marshall Islands through a deep-time perspective and demonstrates the Indigenous knowledge present in the production of the Marshallese vernacular house. The focus is on the socio-spatial patterns that represent generations of cultural knowledge and create culturally supportive built-environments, representative of living vernacular architecture. This article investigates the transformations of the Marshallese vernacular house through a diachronic study of habitation on the weto, which is the traditional system of land tenure through matrilineal inheritance. This study presents findings of extensive field work in the Marshall Islands investigating the dialectic relationship of Marshallese culture and its built-environment. To understand fundamental processes to the Marshallese production of space, a multi-sited case study design utilized theoretical replication to establish consistencies across rural, urban, and peri-urban communities. The study found that while manifestations of the Marshallese vernacular house evolve, the core processes remain consistent. The Marshallese vernacular house is a manifestation of generative processes, components of Indigenous knowledge. The Marshallese vernacular house is central to the Indigenous architecture of the Marshall Islands.

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马绍尔白话屋的演变

摘要 本文通过深度视角研究了马绍尔群岛的乡土建筑，并展示了马绍尔群岛乡土房屋生产中存在的土著知识。重点是代表几代文化知识和创造文化支持的建筑环境的社会空间模式，代表生活的乡土建筑。本文通过对维托人居住的历时研究，探讨了马绍尔乡土房屋的变迁，韦托是通过母系继承的传统土地占有制度。本研究展示了在马绍尔群岛开展的广泛实地工作的结果，调查了马绍尔文化与其建筑环境之间的辩证关系。为了了解马绍尔空间生产的基本过程，多地点案例研究设计利用理论复制来建立农村、城市和城郊社区的一致性。研究发现，虽然马绍尔方言房屋的表现形式不断演变，但核心过程保持一致。马绍尔方言房屋是生成过程的体现，是土著知识的组成部分。马绍尔本土房屋是马绍尔群岛土著建筑的中心。马绍尔方言房屋是生成过程的体现，是土著知识的组成部分。马绍尔本土房屋是马绍尔群岛土著建筑的中心。马绍尔方言房屋是生成过程的体现，是土著知识的组成部分。马绍尔本土房屋是马绍尔群岛土著建筑的中心。