The International Conference on Vernacular Heritage, Sustainability and Earthen Architecture VerSus 2014, will be taking place on September 11th, 12th and 13th 2014 at Valencia, organized by the Instituto de Restauración del Patrimonio of the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and Escola Superior Gallaecia (Portugal).
VerSus 2014 is an International Conference on the lessons from vernacular heritage for sustainable architecture. The areas of study of this congress are the study of vernacular architecture and its mechanisms for sustainability, conservation and restoration of vernacular architecture and the potential applications of the lessons of sustainability of vernacular architecture to contemporary architecture. Inside the Conference VerSus 2014 will take placeMediterra 2014, the second conference of Mediterranean earthen architecture, as a specific section dedicated to earthen architecture in the Mediterranean area and ResTAPIA 2014, the second conference of earthen architecture conservation in general, and rammed earth conservation, in particular.