Architects must participate in, and adapt to, a changing society that embraces different values and technologies. Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in and engages with it – and how both culture and architecture might be reciprocally transformed. Architecture and Culture publishes exploratory research that is purposively imaginative, rigorously speculative, visually and verbally stimulating. From architects, artists and urban designers, film-makers, animators and poets, from historians of culture and architecture, from geographers, anthropologists and other social scientists, from thinkers and writers of all kinds, established and new, it solicits essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives in both images and words, art and building projects, and design hypotheses. Architecture and Culture aims to promote a conversation between all those who are curious about what architecture might be and what it can do.

Usama Badawy Thank you for your response.

Culture shapes architecture, and architecture beautifies culture!

عبدالله البريدي Abdullah Al-Beraidi

Thank you for your short and sweet answer.

It seems to me that the issue is difficult but at the same time, it can be solved if based on Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler. He believed that when culture loses its creative energy, a civilization emerges - dead fragments of culture. In my opinion, these fragments are both architecture and the memory of the past .....

Vladyslav Kamenskyi Thank you for your answer.

In my opinion, architecture is indirectly related to culture through specific leading values ​​and ideas in a specific era of art, philosophy, the dominant general social worldview, etc. Besides, a factor that can indirectly connect styles in architecture, concepts, architectural solutions, etc. with specific values ​​and ideas of cultures, construction technologies and building materials are used in a certain era.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dariusz Prokopowicz Thank you for your opinion.

It is the signature of culture.

Better to say it is the signature of civilization and culture.

Architecture is the method of documenting any civilization without architecture we would not know, feel and compare between civilizations

Agnishwar Girigoswami Amira Almaz

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Different places and areas have their own culture and traditions and so I feel that these factors have a major influence on the architectural form, shape, style and techniques that have been adopted in that particular area. Often the culture of a place decides what spaces are to be added in a building or what form and architectural style it should follow. Many building forms and styles from the past from various regions have been influenced by the prevailing culture over there. Moreover if a building is influenced by the culture of a particular place it will have its unique character and identity and the people residing there or people visiting those places will be able to relate the architecture with the culture of that place. For example, Durga Puja being the biggest festival for the Bengalis, many of the old houses have Thakur Dalan where the Durga Puja is conducted. So, it is a unique feature of these houses that has been influenced by the festivals that form a part of the intangible cultural heritage of the Bengalis.

The fundamental thoughts of each individual or community are rooted in his or her culture and identity. Due to the contextual approach in design, these roots are reflected in the plan, form, and other elements.

When you feel that the look, size, and furniture of your home is inferior to others, and you feel ashamed and humiliated and that feeling forces you to act to improve your home to live with dignity and respect, or to allow yourself to live as before, you will gain the quality that defines your culture.

My lay person's view is that Architecture takes place within a space and context, and one of the elements of such context is culture. Of course architecture could be and has been superimposed in spaces where it results in a disjuncture, creating disharmony between people and their built environment, but ideally, this should be avoided by an awareness and sensitivity to the relationship between architecture and culture.

Architects today have the daunting task of designing for the present and the future of a diverse and rapidly changing culture. Architecture is a product of the culture for which it was designed.