Cultural Sustainability in Architecture
- Department of Architecture, Aakar Academy of Architecture, Visvesvaraya Technological University Bangalore, India
Published in The First NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 26 June 2016, pages 48 to 54. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print).
Abstract
This paper intends to examine existing studies on cultural sustainability and thus advance this emerging area of research by understanding the linkages between the concepts of culture, architecture and sustainable development. The highlights of the study includes the increasing recognition of culture as powerful and important aspect in fostering economic, social and environmental domains of sustainable development. By understanding culture and built environment relationships, there is a greater scope in generating a greater awareness of the people of a place and understand the beliefs and values they share as a society, and to comprehend the uniqueness and differences that make them and their built environment distinct from one another. When there is a deeper understanding of the things that are important to people, the built environment and their inter-relationships, architects and planners can make decisions about the future to meet the users’ social and cultural needs and at the same time, preserve the environment for the next generation through sustainability principles.
Keywords: Architecture; Culture; Sustainability
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