Review: A Review on Traditional Architecture Houses in Buddhist Culture Sarker, R, Cluri, S, ‘A Review on Traditional Architecture Houses in Buddhist Culture’, American Joural of Civil Engineering and Architecture, pp113-123, July 14, 2017.

Review: A Review on Traditional Architecture Houses in Buddhist Culture Sarker, R, Cluri, S, ‘A Review on Traditional Architecture Houses in Buddhist Culture’, American Joural of Civil Engineering and Architecture, pp113-123, July 14, 2017.

 Sarker, R, Cluri, S, ‘A Review on Traditional Architecture Houses in Buddhist Culture’, American Joural of Civil Engineering and Architecture, pp113-123, July 14, 2017.

 I can’t fully state that this article fully accomplishes the task that it set itself to accomplish. There is no real appraisal of traditional Buddhist Architecture as the title may suggest. In fact as far as literature reviews go, this is a list of various articles (18 articles) with pictures, of various dwellings from the Asian region. 

 By no means does the review of articles that span the scope of Bhutan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, China, Nepal, and Myanmar do us a disservice by this, we are treated to a ‘further reading’ article that divulges summaries of full articles by other researchers (including the building regulation stipulations of the Bhutanese Government). 

 In some way, this is a relief, as the article clearly states building methods, materials, and some of the planning stratagems used across the Asian region, allowing us an easy dissimilation of where to find the more specific research. 

 As I’m sure there is either a vast amount of research (or a very small amount of research) being able to see those articles that are more concerned with climatic factors vs. planning strategems is relieving. Though there is something to be said about environmental research being intrinsically derrived from the collection of plans/sections/building form and how they interact with the local environment that means that; there is a good selection of ‘go too’ articles for the sake of exploring traditional residential building layouts within the Asian region.

 There is also some very interesting references to the spiritual values of houses regarding decoration, zoning, material, and hierarchy; and one can draw some conclusions about both the misinterpretation of this and the complete ignorance of this in contemporary Australian culture.

 I know that Buddhism is made up of stories... but I’m uncertain the extent that built forms are. Even if several pictures were supplied with each blurb of the relevant article.
Yet; that’s another Storey. 


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