TRADITIONAL LATVIAN COUNTRY HOUSE. COURLAND REGION EXAMPLE

Abstract

The traditional way of life concerns not only treatment of things, but important is also the environment of traditional management. Development plans have to define the context of the cultural landscape protection and management of premises and areas around the old rural homesteads, having regard to land rights, and should be targeted for biodiversity conservation process. Such areas are not only of local but also of global importance. A highly measurable art is the skill to use and involve the ancient country estate in the landscape and ancient heritage of the most valuable items in the modern landscape, synthesis of the modern landscape of cultural value. As a result, visual character of poor quality is reduced, by giving new modernist trends to Courland traditional country yard landscape areas. Traditional country house landscape for contemporary original, harmonious environment, which is malleable in balance with man and nature, under the umbrella of cultural landscape values. Scientific research results provide an important contribution to the future of rural municipal administrative territorial development to enhance, restore or create new sustainable landscapes, based on balanced and harmonious relationships between economic activities, social needs and cultural environment.