The Importance Of Traditional Architectures

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are built in traditional ways, with traditional materials and use traditional ornaments. Secondly they are common within and peculiar to one more limited parts of the country. Thirdly they are small and mean in comparison with some of their neighbors. The concept of traditions but forward here is not in conflict with any of these and in a way implies all of them. It is this: traditional buildings are those which belong to a type that is common in a given area at a given time. It follows that a kind of building may at any one time be traditional in one area and non-traditional in another and in any one area may change in the course of time from non-traditional to traditional. In other words no building is, or isn’t traditional for its own qualities bur if so by virtue of those which it shares with many others and the identification of vernacular building is very much a matter of relative numbers.
(Source: British vernacular house)

When considering the buildings of folk society, were more closely related to the people and the tradition of the locality. It is a result of unselfconscious transition of human needs in to build forms and simply refers to that produce by people for in the locality of community of people for primitive man the relationship with the site was personal. There were no sharp distinction between the man and nature. The materials available were no simply objects but were full of life. Built according to own style and imagination, making was considered as a spiritual act.
“Primitive forms areas as results of process of gradual adaptions that over many centuries such forms have gradually been fitted to their culture by as intermittent through persistent series of corrections”
(Alexander, 1967) ...

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...rceivable centers of their existential world.

The importance of the Centre is further highlighted by the mythical concepts planed on this Centre area. Hence the rituals those were common to all members is been taken place at this Centre.
As the settlement has begun to involve the Centre still received a prime importance even in such evolutions. The “city” is the developed form of the primitive settlement.
The plan of any ancient city shows that it had a Centre which symbolized and reflected the wealth and the power of the whole state. The palace, council buildings which are the authorities for the defense of the city as well as the most sacred temples through which people believed to receive security form super natural powers were also located at the Centre of the city. This is seen in the ancient Sri Lankan cities such as Anuradhapura and Pollonnaruwa.

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