Saturday, October 14, 2006

Vernacular Architecture Field Trip

I took a trip with my classmate to accompany with my faculty trip to see what Thai architecture is about. The guide was my professor who has lots of knowledge about this and actually is one of the reason I kind of intersting in photography as documentation. The pictures taking during 2 days, the First day we'd been around Ratchaburi drifting along Temples and some old community seeing how architecture can be changed from the change of soceity and social behaviours. Concerning of this point I kind of believe that Thai architecture, or any traditional architecture, is essentially not about style at all but to live together with nature, not to seperate from. My Guess maybe because that we, or countries that have tropical climate, have more friendly environment comaparing to Western architecture that most of the time seperated human from more harmful natural condition which would lead to the big difference between us in using material. In general, wood and stone.

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