What American Culture Makes Its Origin Unique?

Culture gives identity to its origin and makes its origin unique. Culture means a group of people’s way of life and way of understanding the world, belief, and value; which is different from other groups’. Each country has different cultural activities and rituals. This is why every country or region has their own culture. Culture can be expressed by arts, including architecture. ‘An architecture capable of supporting our identity has to be situationally, culturally, and symbolically articulated. I am disturbed by the notion of regionalism because of its geographic and ethnological connotations and would rather speak of situational or culture-specific architecture’ (Pallasmaa 1988, p. 130). Is it necessary applying a country’s native style

In a primordial culture, tradition is often identical with day-to-day reality. On the other hand in a modern society such as America, tradition is the standard against which everyday things are measured. America is not a traditional culture, it is a colonial place and turns into a nation and a culture created by signing a piece of paper or artificial origins. Heterogeneous nations of immigrants also fill in this region. As a result, they have no real native traditions. All American traditions are artificial in a sense and therefore all the more valuable and more to be treasured. American often argued against their best traditions, they view Spanish Colonial as just Spanish misunderstood and assume New England saltboxes were just Elizabethan Tudor buildings misunderstood. Nevertheless, they actually have brought these things as part of its cultural baggage, and adapted them to American present circumstances throughout the history of the country. They have made those things theirs and added to the ongoing tradition that they

In discussing Spanish architecture, we begin with Spain and go behind its traditions to the ancient world on both sides of the Mediterranean. We must talk from Spanish architecture on the Iberian Peninsula to Americas, about what happened to Spanish architecture as it intersected with Native American traditions in the eighteenth century. After that, consider how Spanish architecture continues to be meaningful in the twentieth century, whether in Spain or California or Texas. Then avoid thinking that a tradition in that country is not genuinely American because it does not look different from everything else that has happened in the world. Although none of American architectural traditions are native, except in Southwest, we must see that American are fundamentally a culture that is “other”, and that their traditions are “other”. They use their inventiveness to make that “other” tradition their own. Hence, American architecture and building types are the intersection of architectural traditions, innovative technology, and individual talent.

Louis Sullivan strongly pushed the design of the tall building with non-historicizing mode, was very much involved in the traditional expression of the tall building and the traditional manipulation of form that characterize the New York skyscraper at its best. Sullivan uses natural forms as a replacement for traditional architecture language in the Bayard Building, but when those columns leap