ABSTRACT
For a long time, rural architecture has thus been confined to the domain of “spontaneity” or “natural” (not to say, of the “irrationality”), ignoring the fact that it is not the product of a disordered and random human activity, with no rules, patterns, strong links with history, the environment and its resources, the expression of a state of equilibrium now almost entirely forgotten, and sometimes irreparably destroyed. In contrast, the traditional rural architecture is the result, never fully inclusive of profound influences exercised at all times and places, from economic, social, technical, scientific and cultural communities who created, lived in and used every specific flap of the territory.
