HABITAT IN DIFFERENT CULTURES

Lectures: Dr Ada Kwiatkowska

Level: post-graduate program, MA/ Architecture

Time: 15 weeks  

Aims:

• defining the basic spatial patterns in shaping the housing environment in different cultures

• articulating the fundamental ethical (anthropocentrism vs. ecocentrism) and esthetical problems (regionalism, universalism)

Outlines of lectures and seminars:

• Habitat - the models of man's life environment 

• Systems of the human needs, activities and their spatial settings

• Characteristics of different cultures in the world (Black African, Arabic-Muslim, Indian, Oriental, Malaysian, European, Latino-American, Anglo-American and Australian cultures)

• Influence of the environmental factors on the habitat 

• Influence of the cultural factors on the habitat (concept of human being, model of the Universe, religion, cultural processes)

• Archetypes and spatial patterns of the habitat and home

• Habitat - from dystopia to utopia

• Socio-cultural aspects of the habitat (habitat for homeless people, habitat in over-crowded agglomerations, the future habitat)

• Esthetical aspects of shaping the housing environment: regionalism, universalism and individualism

• Reviews of the international housing competition and exhibition

European habitat  

Australian habitat

Arabic habitat  

Indian Habitat

Anglo-American habitat  

Oriental Habitat

(photos by Ada Kwiatkowska)  

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