INTRODUCTION vernacular architecture
The study of identity in architecture, is a phenomenon that is always interesting to be discussed. Not only on the identity of Indonesian architecture, but this identity problem has begun to be questioned on the level of regional architecture. The existence of Vernacular Architecture is a term that relates to the study of discourse in the regional architecture. Attention to vernacular architecture has begun to develop since the publication of the book "Architecture without Architects", written in 1964 by Bernard Rudofksi. In this book, Rudofski tried to arouse the attention of the observer of architecture by exploiting the existence of a variety of objects that deserve claimed as architecture (an exclusive terminology that is seen to have more value than just "building"), but comes without any professional intervention specialist today we call the nickname architect. Through his writings, Rudofksi able to show that the common people (who even in the context of