The Center for Vernacular Architecture is a Co-operative of building craft persons established in 1989. It is a project of Center for Informal Education and Development Studies. A non-profit organization, the Center has been designing and executing turnkey, various vernacular architectural projects in South India. Vernacular Architecture is a little known and less explored field that is concerned with Architectural building traditions/practices that are cost effective, ecologically sensible and culturally relevant.

Building on the work of practitioners like Laurie Baker and Hassan Fathy, our architectural practice promotes the use of locally available materials, traditional building techniques, culturally and climatically relevant building design.