A. Indigenous Architecture as Basic Architectural Design A-37 3.1.5 ANECDOTE OF BENGAL VERNACULAR SPACES Ashik Vaskor Mannan (1), Sudipta Barua (2) (1) Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture,American International University– Bangladesh [AIUB], Bangladesh ashikvaskor@aiub.edu , ashikvaskor@yahoo.com (2) Lecturer, Department of Architecture, American International University–Bangladesh, [AIUB], Bangladesh sudipta@aiub.edu , sudipta_barua79@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The idea of this text is to renarrativize and re-evaluate the institutionalized architectural narration of Bangladeshi vernacular architecture through ‘alternate discourses’ which can be termed as history from the below. Innumerable number and vastness of rivers are the basic of all structural formation in Bangladesh. These rivers and river-based agriculture helped to develop ethnic native identity which stresses to develop a unique indigenous vernacular spaces and architecture. This Vernacular architecture examines the dwellings, village formations and settlement patterns of the same societies. The most pervasive architectural presence in this delta is the ‘pavilion structure’. The most elemental pavilion is the rustic ‘Bengal Hut’ where the vernacular architecture starts. Again ‘Bungalow’ is such a dwelling unit which was regenerated from the basic living unit of Bengal hut of the indigenous subordinate people and became popular and patronized by the colonial ruler and later established as a kind of architectural style in Western continent. The study tried to investigate and enunciate the development of vernacular spaces of Bangladesh through postcolonial discourses, from ‘Bengal Hut’ to famous ‘Bungalow’ which is a new kind of voyager that open up class of ‘instrumental' or 'native informants', which function as an anecdote of alternate history and was not so branded to western as well as in indigenous, such a way indigenous knowledge can be turned into intellectual property. Keywords: Bengal Hut, Bungalow, Post Colonialism, British colonial period I. FRAME WORK If we look back to understand our historical and cultural matrix in the perspective of world narration, we would always found a space of difference-fragmented and episodic history. The forces of history and tradition of settlements in Bangladesh is holding diverse ethnic, imperialistic cultural and religious beliefs. Certain physical and cultural factors not only act as constrains but also as the source of ideas for the formation of settlement, family structure, art and architecture in Bengal. Topology, climate politics and economy are the foremost factors behind it. The main stream of civilization and pattern of life in this distant land seems to have remained virtually unaffected over thousand of years where numerous clusters of villages formed the bed-rock of the society, the bulk of which is depended on agriculture. The art and architecture of the land is essentially an expression of an agricultural society who eked out their living from the soil, which profoundly influenced their creation. The rural values, knowledge