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Discuss the geographical factors which influence rural house types in India.

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  • Settlements

Few artefacts are more purely geographical than the rural house. As Amos Rapoport argued in House Form and Culture (1969), house form is "the direct and unselfconscious translation into physical form of a culture's way of life" — but that translation is written in local materials and constrained by local climate, relief, soil and water.…

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  • 1. Climate: the primary determinant
  • 2. Relief, materials, soil and water: the site and its substances
  • 3. Economy and state: the mediators of permanence
  • 4. Culture: the selector among possibilities
  • 5. Function and morphology: the house as livelihood machine
  • 6. Modern transformation: hybrid forms and the fading alphabet
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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