A Place of Traditional Abode in Modern World

Author

Yarova Alina

a Ph.D. in History, a junior research fellow at the NASU M. Rylskyi IASFE Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department

A Place of Traditional Abode in Modern World

Abstract

Traditional dwelling is gradually disappearing from the life and is transferred in the reserves because of the various factors. However, the building conservation and its shifting to the guarding areas can’t solve the problem of the traditional dwelling preservation for future generations.

Dwelling, taken out of the context, is not so representative as the hut, which is still functioning as a housing building. However, at the same time, collection of traditional dwellings in the museums enables to protect them from destruction. Some factors, which have a negative influence on the preservation of traditional architecture in the villages, are concealed in the domicile peculiarity itself. Natural materials, such as wood, clay, cane, straw, used for the traditional Ukrainian habitation building, are dilapidated rapidly. Simple planning of old huts is not actual for the people of the twenty­first century. Furthermore, most traditional dwellings are located in the villages, which are disappearing as a result of urbanization.

Museums are not the only solution of the issue of traditional architecture preservation. The practice to protect traditional architectural buildings is widespread all over the world. Unfortunately, it is developed faintly in Ukraine. Thus, for instance, the simple people dwellings are not almost protected and the monument status is granted them rarely, especially in the rural places, despite the cult buildings or the prominent figures estates. Such situation can be changed through the support of the owners of unique and traditional dwellings by the state as it is practiced in some European countries.

Keywords

skansen, dwelling, architecture, museum, traditions, culture.

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