ABSTRACT
Usually when one thinks of “architecture” the first impression that comes to mind is the contained space of some kind of structure. On the vernacular or folk idiom level, this impression would imply defining research concerns in terms of the house unit. Instead, what is needed is a concern for relationships—of the parts of any structure to the whole, of the structure to its corollary structures in a functional complex (such as the farmstead), and the cultural tie-in of all these parts.
