ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE

Impact of Culture on Architecture

Impact of Culture on Architecture

Introduction

Culture has an enormous impact on the architecture. When architects start to make a construction, they must see the people's culture and the environment in which the construction will be constructed. So it is significant to link between any building and the people's culture that are near to the building or will be living in that construction. Affirming the presence of the cultural -- by noting the in-eliminability of the public, while allowing both to have a complex and contested status -- allows architecture to be opened up beyond any reduction. Be that a reduction to the simply economic or to the merely cultural, it goes without saying that such a position is necessarily contestable. Moreover, this inherent contestability may result in the refusal of the interplay of cultures and therefore in the championing of the interdependence of the private and the economic. The victory of one over the other reveals an essential truth. Namely, that the presence of the conflict -- the inescapable hold of contestability -- is the first step in any argument for the inherently cultural nature of the architectural.

Different countries have different cultures which they follow. Diverse cultures influence how space is used and designed. Suburban planning often fails to address needs of any other cultures for social as well as private spatial patterns. This paper discusses how I, as a construction manager, would cope with the changes and succeed in a construction site by employing a case study related to the above matter.

Discussion

This paper employs a case study that seeks to design a cohesive centre for Latin-American Park by addressing the urban needs, as well as spatial patterns influenced by and reflective of the Latino culture. Using historical and contemporary precedents to create an image-able centre, a new Community Centre will be the anchor piece for the proposed square. The need for urban “Placitas” (plazas) for cultural amenities such as street vending and socialisation is also documented. This paper defines the influence of cultural values on architectural and urban form and discusses how these forms create a sense of community.

Case Study

This case study is about a project in which architects wanted to create a building that becomes the heart of the community. The architects expected the centre to provide many cultural activities. In the most fundamental sense, the Latinos are struggling to reconfigure the “cold” frozen geometries of the old spatial order to accommodate a “hotter”, more exuberant urbanism (Davis 65). UK has always been considered a melting pot of cultures, but more and more we are realizing that our individual cultures are what makes us unique and our country great.

It is the social aspects that acknowledge the human condition and our different cultures that seem to be missing in a lot of architecture that gets built today. In fact, the process has become reversed. More attention is paid to the economy and efficiency of building envelop than designing architecture for specific ...