Marcel Vellinga is Professor of Anthropology of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. Holding a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University in the Netherlands, Marcel has taught and published on a variety of topics including vernacular architecture, the anthropology of architecture, rural architectural regeneration, and tradition and sustainable development. Marcel is the Editor-in-Chief of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2022