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THE DESTRUCTION OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTUREAmong the problems that we could try in this section have chosen which affects to the vernacular for being one of

the most ignored architecture, but at the same time the easiest to see, explained once and, without a doubt, the most

profound of all. This is not the place to explain detail be vernacular architecture, show its evolution and its variants, or

sing all their virtues and beauty. For any student and a philosopher of technology would be a duty to meet its regional

variant of this type of architecture, which has purple all mankind - their own grandparents - as recently as a few

decades. Now it is enough to know that popular or vernacular architecture is the architecture of each place and that

of others in general to the cults and international historical styles, built the village with materials of the surroundings

and artisan techniques for their own needs. This immemorial tradition that spans from the huts of mud and straw of

the African tribes to our hamlets of stone and wood has entered an inexorable decline since the second half of the

century. As we already noted in the previous section, the introduction of modern architecture caused a brutal impact

on traditional techniques, which already does not recover. The urgency for the urban masses meant the adoption of

modern technology for mass production of new materials such as steel, brick, cement and glass. The craft and Trade

Union tradition of construction in the cities broke which meant a definitive shift in the overall production of

construction materials in the developed countries. If the first was the disappearance of the vernacular 'city', little by

little the rural architecture it was taking materials and modern techniques. Throughout Europe and North America,

sooner or later soon - in a period that scale between end of century and the sixties - he stopped building vernacular

architecture. New rural buildings that rose from then on were made as mode technified of modern architecture,

adopting a sort of spoofed variant of the style above or neo-vernacular, just in general retained a number ofpicturesque features. Restorations of vernacular buildings also began to adopt industrial materials, which

disappeared almost completely on the traditional crafts related to the arts of construction. The last step in this process

was the introduction of legislation that prohibited the vernacular self and imposed the professional architect firm in

any project. The result of this process is that vernacular architecture has died in the first world and has become the

best in a heritage restored with more or less success or presented at theme parks outdoors. Only in certain rural

areas of the third world remains alive and intact vernacular architecture, while around large cities has appeared a

curious hybrid phenomenon of self-build with natural and industrial scrap materials, in the form of large slums of

shanty towns or favelas. The replacement of the vernacular art by modern technology in architecture, as discussed

above, does not cause a change in aesthetic order only. His greatest and worst consequence is the social and

cultural transformation that entails. While the old vernacular houses collapsing or rehabilitated aggressively and built

new modern housing, what is really changing is a way of life, a vision of the world, a rich popular culture and the

essence of the man himself. When well-meaning missionaries forced to have certain indigenous villages in the

Amazon in the reticular form instead of its traditional form circular and cosmogonic, its inhabitants were homeless andadopted a new God and a new life. Sometimes just with an ethnic killing it, sometimes destroying its architecture and,

unfortunately, also often happens that an entire people begins to renounce its signs of identity when it begins to

accept the way technical build and restore your home. Disappears the vernacular world on the horizon of technified

globalization, and with it their human values are also. We lose the sense of community, and we started in the hands

of unbridled progress, individualistic selfishness and exclusively material well-being. Is true that modern architecture

can solve some problems - hygiene, risk of fire, strength, domestic water and electricity infrastructure but curiously

all can be solved with technical improvements that are perfectly adaptable to vernacular architecture with minimal

alterations. The ideal of the modern villa, in a variety of models neo-historicists, rationalist or neove

Julio carvajal jr. architect