Tarp įstatymų, etninės ir šiuolaikinės architektūros sąvokų

Abstract

In Lithuania, the system of protected territories takes up 785 thousand ha, which is 12% of the country's whole terrirory. The largest part of protected territories is taken up by statė: national and regional parks, wherein the natural and cultural heritage is being protected, as well as lanascape and biological variety, their ecological equilibrium. This system of protected territories is characterised by the goal to protect both unique, and characteristic landscape complexes, starting with natural and ending in urbanised ones, not forgetting neither cultural nor natural (animate and inanimate) heritage objects and complexes. After over twenty years since the foundation of these parks, it is worth looking back to see what has happened during this time and what heritage has been left by human beings, creating their habitats. A wish and hope remains, that the situation will change and will see more contemporary houses which interpret the uniqueness of ethnographic architecture or that we will build houses based on the old crafts, not forgetting structural systems, to preserve the characteristic of ethnographic architecture which formed in 19th century, or perhaps simply preserve the dwindling, long-since abandoned farmsteads. They are really easy to find, especially in Tytuvėnai Regional Park, and they are surely waiting to be revitalised and further fostered.