Abstract
Architecture since the beginning of time has been developed and shaped according to many aspects such as environmental factors, material availability, construction knowledge, religion, economy, and political decisions. In the current century, with the globalized building materials and increased awareness in architecture construction methods, architecture has hundreds of different ways to be constructed and developed. On the other hand, architecture is being formed and affected mainly due to economic factors, and political decisions. Bekaa Valley, a region in Lebanon can tremendously show this contemporary form of a changed aesthetic due to a political decision. The former is a region famous for its agricultural lands formed by million years of sediment clustering from rich Lebanese mountains bounding the area from the East and the West. The specific eastern area of Beka’a valley studied - Nabisheith to Douris- is full of farming lands, used by locals and nomads to grow a variety of vgetables, fruits, and wheat. A political decision lately developed by the minister of interior, to build houses by underdeveloped permits, changed the typology of a landscape created more than 2500 years ago. The architectural typology also changed to form new kind of architecture, which is indifferent to the local knowledge of construction learned and developed by locals. Local knowledge developed and adapted to endure harshness of weather by local materials replaced by globalized materials and abrupt political decisions. Such formation didn’t only affect the aesthetics of landscapes picturesque sceneries and dwelling spaces but also raises an awareness of changing a cultural bond once famous in this particular region.