ABSTRACT
Questions of culture and meaning may sometimes be overlooked in architectural education and practice, but they can never be avoided. International practices constantly confront cultural differences in construction, inhabitation and interpretation of architectural designs. With the recent advocacy of the primacy of practice over theory, certain trends emphasize the importance of “performance” in metrically determined digital design, yet culture everywhere underlies these efforts. Notions of “comfort,” for example, are culturally determined and vary enormously around the globe and even between different peoples and times within the same place.
