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Architecture for the last thirty years have been transformed immensely with changing moods and ideas on better living. The nuclear family concept accentuated this phenomenon since seventies. The concept of house holds with independent living spaces for a single family came into existence. The gulf episode of Kerala migration patterns, contributed to this, paving fundamentals for a nuclear family living, especially the concept of a middle class house hold.
Gulf money since 80s mostly invested in house building. The process of multiculturalism and globalized cultural economy are seemed providing artistic and aesthetic background to this movement. A lot of people from NRI sector and also governmental agencies pumped money in house building field resulting in construction of huge flats, conference halls, parking spaces, hotels, motels, restaurants, shops, malls and market places of different spacial modalities.
