Environmental and Religious Architecture Dynamics in Himachal Pradesh, North West India

Abstract

Anthropological view is different from architectural that is space and Culture. Architecture of houses and religious building is one of the most prominent arts that can be seen from since ancient times. Which represent the artistic mind of people.  But in modern times in metropolitan city we hardly see this type of architecture. In Himachal Pradesh this type of the house can be seen in this period still some prefer to maintain, but some younger generation of Himachal Pradesh is turning towards to modernization. In this paper, it was the technique of making houses observe that instead of modernization, people still prefer to old architecture because it maintain the warmness and more reliability strong structure which hardly affect the nature. Tradition of sculpture expresses some of most profound ideals and experiences of men through simple and easily understandable symbols which have direct influence on everyday life.