AN EVALUATION OF THE EXPRESSION OF IGBO CULTURAL IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. (IGBO CULTURAL CENTRE)

📄 Project Abstract

Culture is one of the most important aspects of human existence which comprises of all areas of human life, past and present. Culture describes the many ways in which human beings express themselves for the purposes of uniting with others, forming a group, defining an identity, and even for distinguishing themselves as unique. Cultural identity is the process by which social actors build their own meaning according to cultural attributes. The Igbo race from the precolonial to the postcolonial period, and from the traditional to contemporary life practices have demonstrated the ability to express cultural identity in the physical as well as spiritual world of the Igbo cultural society. Presently in south eastern Nigeria which is dominated by Igbos, there are certain buildings that house cultural artifacts and historic books but none of them adequately meets the requirement for the expression of Igbo cultural identity. This is as a result of the coming of westernization which to a large ...