Building technologies as intangible cultural heritage: a tool for developing a culturally sustainable future

The rich past of legacies in heritage is challenged by modernisation. A homogenised system of meaning is being created, set an altered condition of universality. The homologation can be contrasted by rethinking construction technologies’ translation into different cultural contexts. A culturally sustainable urban development can be designed that could reconnect the disjunctions given by the intensified development in China as in Europe, starting from the connections between culture and technology.