Architecture

Through many years of trial and error the people of a particular culture decided what was the best way to live together. The buildings that they designed helped them live this life and express what they thought was important. Most people when they moved to a new place liked to have something near them that reminded them of their old home.

Immigrants also brought their skills and experience in construction with them. These construction skills influenced what they built in a new place. Interesting things happened, however, when their new home did not have the same materials or climate as their old homeland. A group coming from a place with a cool and wet climate, for example, would have to change their way of building if they came to a new place with a hot and dry climate.

Using e-mail and the web, we interviewed an architect, Zane Anderson. Mr. Anderson lives in Bristol, Rhode Island. He recently retired from Roger William's University as a professor of architecture.