ABSTRACT
Now, the development of human civilization makes architecture should be able to adapt to the contemporary context. Local architecture (traditional) now increasingly have an important role in modern times. It is considered to be able represent and provide national identity in contemporary architecture, but to rebuild traditional architecture in a modern context is not easy, especially using design from local architecture value that does not replicate imitative physical form. Budihardjo (2009), “the rediscovery of identity in this era that full of conflict, change and chaos, it seems the more we want, both as individuals and as citizens of a nation who claiming having a culture. But the problem now is research on traditional architecture still like ‘embryo’, while on the other hand; developments and changes take place very quickly. The race between “conversation vs. development “or” tradition vs. modernization “walk-sided.”
