Keynote: Vernacular architecture and typology

Abstract

A pious Muslim, whose son was about to get married, he went to the mosque of a small village and asked the brothers to help build the new house. All the faithful agreed, no questions like: “What type of home?” “How are distributed functions?” what materials and what techniques? “. Simply: the house. In the past times the owner very likely did not even need to describe a house to a local mason who shared his cultural milieu; he simply told the mason what he needed and the mason built the house without too much planning and the carpenter, when he built the roof, built the only roof he knows. The idea of house is a concept shared by the whole community and it is so rooted, that exists in the mind of the inhabitants even before challenging the tools and execute the work.