Question

Choose a culture. Examine the architectural design. Explain how the housing designs help to depict the character of the place and culture of this group of people.

Answer 1

• We choose a culture – India Culture.
• We are examining the architectural designs of houses in India region for the Indian people who have deep belief for Indian culture.

We found that housing designs help to depict the character of the place, and culture of the group of people as below

• Character of the place: The culture shows the character of the place in terms of aggressive, silent, simple, fashionable, energetic, emotion etc. This impression we can find from the architecture of the house or internal design of the house. The mode or look of the house is actually making as a impression of the character of the place. The character of the place will be seen based on the house and its design how it is made, how it is colored and how it is shown for people. Thus the house design is the representation of the character of the place. This will show how the place will behave i.e. proper behavior, simple, gentlemen, non-gentlemen, improper, ethical, unethical etc.
• Culture of The Group – The house design and architecture will be able to show the culture of the group of people, because the group of people is involved in making the design for their house. This design will show how the people think, how the people behaves, how the people make looks etc. All this things will be derived from the culture of the group of people. Thus the house design will represent the culture of the group of people. Basically culture of the people will provide them the energy to think in that direction and accordingly they will prepare the design for their house. The house design is from the thought process of group of people and thought process of group of people is from the culture of the group of people. Thus we can say that culture of group of people derives the designs of the house of group of people.