How relevant is to talk about Ethnoarchitecture and Vernacular Architecture today?
After more than thirty years of eco-crisis, industry has managed to find technological solutions to many of the environmental threats that the planet faced a few years ago. This has made some scholars wonder if today we should keep talking about eco-crisis or if that is just an eco-myth. That pondering is often being used politically, but that’s another story. The main issue is that, although solutions exist, in many cases there is just no political willingness to embrace them. There is not, in my opinion, such thing as an ethno-myth. In times of globalization-mundialization, local cultures are in crisis. Many influential organizations such as the United Nations have acknowledged the magnitude of that social, cultural crisis. Statements such as the 1972 Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, the 1992 Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and the 2000
