USE OF CULTURAL ELEMENTS AS SOURCES OF FORMS IN THE DESIGN OF CULTURAL CENTRE, KATSINA

📄 Project Abstract

Since the evolution of human society, existed culture; where the handing of opinions, beliefs and customs from generation was practiced as tradition. Thus, every community has its own cultural elements. However, the elements of a particular culture could be strong ones (those that can easily be identified) or weak ones. Most of such elements of culture were handed down from time immemorial. Right then existed a forum of cultural activities in every society, known as "DANDALI" in Hausa, which has now metamorphosis into the present day culture centre. The research therefore will start by identifying the general elements of culture and then narrowing it down to the elements of culture in katsina state and showing how or which can be used to source a form that will identify the culture of katsina state. However, the research started with the study of culture generally in a wide perspective because even with the rooted historical background in culture, before Nigeria attained independence i...