The Sociocultural Role of Architectural Types: Cultural Sustainability in Architecture and the Possibility of Convention

This study looks at the issue of cultural sustainability in architecture from the perspective of architectural types and attempts to question the cognitive viability of using types in the creation of a sustainable cultural milieu. The study conducts a multi-disciplinary and cross-comparative discourse analysis on the subject areas of cultural sustainability, cultural schemas and architectural types, in an attempt to find out the social and cognitive role of architectural types with regard to cultural sustainability. Examining these subject areas comparatively, the study respectively investigates the role of cultural schemas in cultural sustainability, the correlation of architectural types and cultural schemas, and the social and cognitive role of architectural types in the formation of cultural sustainability. Consequently, the study questions if the use of architectural types has a cognitive basis in the creation of a sustainable cultural milieu