HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE----CHAPTER 6.

HOUSE FORM AND CULTURE----CHAPTER 6. 

MUHAMMAD ASHHAD FAQUIH.

CHAPTER 6---- A LOOK AT THE PRESENT.

In this chapter there is a basic comparison between the high culture architecture style and folk culture vernacular way of building. 

The basic thing that has been neglected by the modern man is the old mythological and cosmological orientation which was a vital part in the primitive man’s life style. The basic turning point due to which the people lost their mystic and traditional touch was the change in thought due to industrialization, due to which everything changed and gave people a totally new way of looking at things.

Developing countries ingored their past like no else one did. They were highly focused on their new way of life leaving behind the traditional touch in their way of life and architecture they built. In finding the greater essence of this modernization, people started to apply things for other part of the world in their context…. Thus changing almost everything they look upon. The greatest danger was of applying concepts of different parts in different parts of the world, rather than looking at their own local ways.

While doing any architecture work in any part of the world, the context of that part should always be kept in mind while making any thing for the people dwelling there. If people want modern functionality in their houses…they should opt for “traditional functionality” for the betterment if their area.