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Ethnoarchitecture.org is the Internet's first and largest database of indigenous
and vernacular architecture. It features information on the architecture of
7,299 groups around the world, distributed in 228 countries and territories.
This work in progress is a research initiative by Gabriel Arboleda, a doctoral
student of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Total
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NUMBER 7
Gabriel Arboleda
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August 23, 2007
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Origins
Following the Christian myth, Adam was the first architect and his son Cain was the first urbanist. Adam was the first architect because after all he had to build a shelter for himself, once he was expelled from the protective paradise. Cain, the Bible says, populated earth with his descendants, building the first city which he called Enoch after his son's name. We can therefore assume that urbanism is—at least from this mythical perspective—a more recent art than architecture.
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"Architecture is more than just the development of products for a market.
It is about space and place, home and community, body and memory, earth and
sky.
It is for people, for their whole lives..." - C. Davies.
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