CULTURE AND CONTEXT IN ARCHITECTURE

Humans need to feel that they belong in a place. We need to have a connection—say, a communion--with our surroundings. In the built environment, we often sacrifice this greater sense of integration with a space for the false security of place identification. Often, this is done clumsily or without any attention paid to local context, and broadly termed as “placemaking”, which is a catchall for projects that strike just the right note, but just as often, completely tone deaf to the surrounding context