ANATOMY OF TRIBAL ARCHITECTURE ARAKU VALLEY : ANDHRA PRADESH

Abstract

Since architectural history has been rather neglected, particularly in India, we may ask why stgdy tribal architec-ture in the space age, with its rapid tempo of change One can learn from the past; that study of the past has a philosophic value apart from making us aware of the complexity and overlapping of things�â� � "New has no meaning when it simply breaks with the past" : - C. A. DOXIADIS. We cannot assume that our problems are so different that the past has no meaning for us. While technology may progress, architecture does not necessarily do so. This is a topic where many disciplines overlap architecture, history, cultural geography, anthropology, behavioural sciences, city planning, and building science. Therefore, this study is rather focused on buildings and their creation, and study the relation of the built environ-went to man and nature while many of the fields mentioned, are treated as secondary. The study will throw light on the whole problem of understanding the relation of built form to the culture concerned, in. turn making clear the values of cross-cultural analysis in relation to the house and built environment..............