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The article presents the author’s view on multicultural context in architectural design as a key to spatial and social harmony. The review that was carried out suggests that multicultural context is an important element in the identity and in the history of a place and points out that multicultural context is an essential feature of sustainable development. The analysis led to selecting a range of elements of multicultural approach in architecture: cultural patterns, cross-cultural communication, glocalization, space branding, and multicultural canons. By placing the problem within current debates in multicultural context, we offer a new approach to amplifying architectural identity through developing intercultural capital that enables attaining creative architectural solutions. We conclude that the cross-cultural context is an important element of contemporary architecture.
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Bonenberg, W. (2016). Cross-Cultural Design and Its Application in Architecture. In: Charytonowicz, J. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 493. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41941-1_10
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