Indigenous Building & the Third World
In 1976 DW wrote...
The potentials of indigenous planning and building methods have been neglected in most Third World countries. They have been replaced by western methods that are often inappropirate to local conditions and needs. The visible material success of the industrialised world has made it the obvious model for Third World Contries. The very terms Developing and Developed countries suggest that the latter is a superior model that the former should aspire toward. ... we believe more appropriate models could be developed from the indigenous methods with the Third World countries themselves...