Javanese Architecture is Not a Traditional Architecture

The aims of this study is intended to understand the discourse of Javanese Architecture as a product of Javanese culture to fulfill basic human needs in form of a living space material. Javanese architecture is constantly oriented to preserve the harmony between nature and space along with society from the modernity pressure in which science and social practice is a network of knowledge practice and power. What types of concept that underlies the embodiment of architecture, as happened in Javanese Architecture, which is actually the owner discourse that discussed using qualitative methods and descriptive qualitative and interpretative techniques and using a hermeneutic approach. Architecture is not merely meant as an inanimate object, but it is considered as a mean of visual communication whose meaning will never stop. Therefore, space is considered as something that represents an event or a bound of human collective memories. There are two results of this study. First, positioning morality as an essential meaning of Javanese architecture in the present context as a form of Javanese people awareness in building their living space material. Secondly, the local wisdom contained in Javanese architecture as human living space material is the expression of the Javanese mother tongue in architecture.