Socio-Cultural and Folkloric Significance of Vernacular Architecture

As the vernacular architecture is a product of culture and closely associated with folklore, the subject bears great cultural and folkloric significance. The studies and researches in the field of culture and folklore are gaining growing importance and value. In the changing world, the studies on folklore and culture bear great values for providing proper perspective of looking at social phenomenon. In the similar way, as a constituent element of culture and folklore, vernacular architecture also exhibits such contemporary significance. There have developed numerous studies to scrutiny the relation, implication, and association of vernacular architecture on different aspects of life and culture. So, there developed different perspectives of looking at the subject.

The vernacular architecture is a traditional body of material which thereby nourishing and carrying numerous age-old values and cultural wisdom. There is no doubt that the vernacular architecture can provide us different precedent clues on different aspects of a society and culture. It thus is capable of demonstrating and substantiating the technical and intellectual progression of the society. Since the traditional knowledge is the outcome of the age-old experiences of the people, they often possess the potential to cope the changing situation also. Thus, the vernacular architecture possesses various cultural and folkloric significances of contemporary relevance.