Why Architecture Should Adapt To Geography?

Osman Soylu
Retina
Published in
5 min readSep 25, 2019

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With the Industrial Revolution that began in the 19th century, many things began to change in our lives as human beings. Until the 1800s, we lived in small, remote and independent settlements.

In these ancient times, the structures we lived in or built for other purposes were natural to the materials of the region they were built and the different conditions imposed by the region.

With the increase in urbanization rate and the rapid migration of people to the cities, not only the population of the cities and accordingly the number of buildings did increase. At the same time, the structure of our buildings and architecture has changed, both with building materials that are much easier to transport from anywhere in the world, and with the growing need for housing.

In the cities, an architecture which is much more uniform and similar to each other, appealing to the function of a very large and direct, and puts the aesthetic form of the building in the background, has adopted. Yes, no matter how unpleasant it sounded, putting the form in the background, paying attention only to the functionality of the buildings being built, and the appearance of gray concrete blocks, it was not that bad at that time.

Imagine, thanks to the developing technological possibilities, you can now build more and more…

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Osman Soylu
Retina

A fresh writer on Tech, Society, Philosophy and History.