Tipologia așezărilor și locuințelor din zona Munților Apuseni (județul Alba)
Types of Settlements and Homes from the Area of the Apuseni Mountains (Alba County)

Summary/Abstract: Folk architecture, the way we know it today, is the last sequence of a long developing process (still undergoing), which aesthetically and spiritually, asserts as the sum of previous stages. The appearance of rural settlements is profoundly affected by the economic life and geographic environment, which imposed not only specific arrangement as for the shape of settlements but also certain jobs of the inhabitants. Development of houses from those with one room to those with more subsumes under the following specific categories, since their appearance to nowadays: the house with a room to live, the house with a room to live and one room, the house with one room to live and porch and larder, the house with two rooms to live each with separate access, the house with three rooms to live. Naturally, each category has variants and sub-variants, whose classification would be less useful and challenging to make. Research of traditional architecture made possible identification of its essential features and a confirmation of its value within a unitary pattern. Study of architecture holdings is a source of information for those who wish to project and build resting on the long, traditional expertise, and certain seized general aspects stand for the whole country.

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