Acknowledgement

The Department of Urban Development and Housing would like to express its extreme gratrtude to all individuals and organizations whose contributions made possible the publication of this book "Traditional Architecture Guidelines". We are particularly thankful to Mr. Namgay Retty, Architect, SPBC, who undertook the laborious task of compiling most of the information and photographs/illustrations and transforming them into the form of this book. We acknowledge the contributions of Dasho Karma Gayleg who provided us with most of the explanations and Karma Galay Architect, who helped with editing. Finally, we would like to thank DANIDA for their generous financial assistance in organizing the workshop which brought artisans and ideas together to form the basis of this book.