Abstract
Improvement of technologies that start during 16th century have change the way of human life, increase of population, urbanization, colonialism, imperialism, comsumption growth and earth pollution are some of the worst effect of industrialization, although we cannot deny the improvement of technologies to human kind, the development of science that lead better human life.
The diversity of Indonesian traditional architecture is a cultural richness that attract to research, particulary the relation between modernization and adaptation of traditional culture toward modernity, Manggaraian architecture is one of them, laid in Flores Island, one of the East Nusa Tenggara isles.
Manggarai culture which stand their belief on the spirit of the ancestors, the strong familiarity as social patrilineal community having a uniqueness which in modern era have to face the change and adaptation either in physic and non-physic culture. Manggarai people nowdays can describe as “society in transition”, a transition caused by touch of a new cultural system, especially in the changing believing system (religion) and also science and technology effect which open the Manggaraian people with world outside, an introduction to modern building material which all have change the ‘face’ of their architecture from primitive culture to a traditional vernacular culture.
Globalization era in term of traditional architecture of Manggaraian people should put in todays awareness, the spirit of development of sustainable architecture, which means adaptation to modernity without losse their local knowledge. To create architecture design which uses natural resources wisely.
KEY WORDS: Improvement of technologies, Traditional achitecture of Manggarai, culture adaptation, sustainable architecture
(Presented on ”International Conference of Tropical Architecture within Tradition-Globalization”, 17 Agustus 1945 University (UNTAG), Surabaya, April 24th 2007)
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