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Forces
Primitive
Vernacular
Site
It would be wrong to minimize the importance of site
for primitive and vernacular builders, but one can
question the determining influence of the site on
house form. For example, there are differences
between the house forms in Chihuahua (Mexico) and
Texas, which are separated by the border, an
imaginary line in physical terms, but very real in terms
of attitudes to life, economics, nature, and the
meaning attached to the house and the city.
Texas
conomics
Religion
Possibly as a reaction to the physical determinism, there is also an antiphysical determinism, which neglects a whole set of important material
factors, and attributes the form of houses to religion.
Raglan states that the house is much more than a shelter. For many peoples
in ancient Rome, New Caledonia, Cambodia, Annam, and China, the house
was the only temple. Religion affects the form, plan, spatial arrangements
and orientation of the house.
Round houses
Rectangular houses
Basic Needs
A Look at Present
The study of the past is valuable
philosophically as well as in making us
aware of the complexity and overlapping of
things. It can also clarify those elements
that are constant and those which change.
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