Redefining architecture to accommodate cultural difference: designing for cultural sustainability

Abstract

A theory of ‘cultural sustainability’ in architecture must be underpinned by a conceptualization of architecture that is sensitive to cross-cultural contexts and values and not overly dominated by Western concepts of what architecture is. A number of key areas are thus outlined for design consideration if cultural sustainability is to become more intimately aligned with architectural outcomes. These include the cross-cultural variation in where authority lies in building and design decisions, culturally specific forms of spatial behaviour and the meanings encoded into buildings and environments. The cultural properties of buildings need to be positioned as a subset of the cultural properties of places, and the dynamics of architectural traditions and their time properties need to be understood within varying scales of cultural change processes. Finally consideration is provided to cultural constructs of well-being and social design in the environment.

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