Proposing that architecture and culture coexistence between them, it follows that architecture must ‘house’ the activities of culture. Culture is the manner in which people do things, how life is lived, and describes the total life style of the people in a particular location. Culture to fulfill its role, must have functional space in which it can display and manifest its activity. Architectural design must therefore be able to provide space in which this activity and life style can take place. While it is a fact that both architecture and culture are dynamic in nature and will move towards what is better, culture must not easily succumb to architectural demands and its attractiveness. To this end, research must be thorough enough to provide solutions to avoid erasing the richness of culture. Architecture must not be too quick to give its solution at the expense of culture. The coming up of design and construction of tradition chiefs palaces country wide has prompted the writing of this paper to avoid the approaches to the designs which seem to have omitted the aspect of culture which is supposed to have manifested in the designs. The argument lies in that culture must be compensated in the design of architecture because of the interaction which exists between culture and architecture. The paper tries to investigate the major importance of palace architecture development of the Lamba chiefs of the Copperbelt Province of Zambia.
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Binwell Nkonde Dioma, Brian Katongo, Albert Malama. (2022). Palace Architecture: Culture as a Determinant of Its Design. Social Sciences, 11(5), 254-258. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ss.20221105.12
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