Миграциите като фактор за формиране на обща регионална архитектурна картина на Балканите
Migration as a Factor for Forming a Common Regional Architectural Picture on the Balkans

Summary/Abstract: The author will try to prove that, in the Balkans, the migrations of people from different ethnic identities lie at the basis of the varied architectural influences, including the formation of the traditional Balkan architecture. The methodology of cross-cultural analyses will be applied to examples taken from the territory of Bulgaria. The cross-referencing of data from various sources: history, toponymy, dialectology, onomastics, folklore, ethnography, linguistics, etc., and migration movements leads to corrections in a number of preconceived, imagined, or wishful theses in architecture, to self-organization of the historical picture and objectification of the conclusions. The information about the migration movements can shed a lot of light on the much discussed topic of the construction schools, as well as objectify the no less debatable question of the mutual influences to architecture in the Balkans. There does not exist any important architectural problem which could not be considered in the context of the entire Balkan Peninsula, including the theses about the architectural and construction schools, the spreading of styles, techniques, construction methods, decorative systems, etc. The author will try to show how studying migration flows could contribute to achieving a way of architectural thinking which transcends the ethnic and national boundaries in the name of a common, regional Balkan architectural picture.

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