ABSTRACT
Architectural scholars and professionals have long recognized the erosion of culturally endowed architectural meaning: technology transfer has caused the relationship between form and its means, so evidently reciprocal in indigenous construction, to crumble.1 Natives and tourists alike now deprecate traditional architecture while applauding the pseudoauthentic.' If the irreversible universalization of technology and of man constitutes 'a sort of subtle destruction, not only of traditional culture ... but also of what I shall call for the time being the creative nucleus of great cultures, that nucleus on the basis of which we interpret life', is architecture doomed to lose its meaningfulness?3
