Types of Settlements, Households and Architecture from Orăștioara de Sus Commune (Hunedoara County) Cover Image

Tipologia așezărilor, gospodăriilor și arhitecturii din comuna Orăștioara de Sus
Types of Settlements, Households and Architecture from Orăștioara de Sus Commune (Hunedoara County)

Author(s): Adriana Ţuţuianu
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Editura Altip
Keywords: village; household; house; roof; beam;

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 sum of previous stages. Appearance of rural settlements is highly affected by the economic life and geographic environment, which imposed not only certain arrangement as for 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 difficult 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.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 453-464
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian