Currently, Nigerian architecture has no correlation with the culture of its people and does not respect the environment upon which it exists. This paper aims at reorienting and retooling our architecture to be in tune with the culture and the environment it represents. The objectives were to refocus our building professionals towards the essence of architecture and the need to imbibe local technology and materials in producing buildings that can be associated with our people and the culture. The most obvious features of existing communities are that, they nearly always have a clear visual as well as functional identity. Architecture in a community is a generative process of shelter in the culture of that community. Architecture in Nigeria be it in education or practice, lost the essence of its being. That is to say, Nigerian architecture if there is anything like that, does not have its culture as a base. There is the need to debrief Nigerian professionals, of this misdirection in our architectural development, back to our culture that is sustainable in our environment. This trend of a disjointed incremental continuum is just an extension of colonization and should not be allowed to continue. This paper seeks to prove that this initial inequality or imbalanced judgment, which perpetuated its self through subsequent generations in a cumulative degree, is traceable and redeemable.
F.O. Uzuegbunam (2024) studied this question.