We are all online. We rarely leave our homes - only when necessary, even though, at times, the prescribed measures allow us to do so. Our daily routines are embedded in video calls and performed online. Household members are forced to stay together now more than ever, but at the same time, all of them need space to study and work. A sudden transition from classrooms to Zoom rooms is forcing us to rethink the entire educational system: New educational grammar is needed! The need for additional insulation inside apartments has become a reality. A wardrobe turns into a study, and nature becomes our balcony. How aware are we of the current changes in our living spaces? Can we use architecture to establish a dialogue with contemporary issues and events, and provide critical solutions that would make the spaces we live in better? New spatial grammar is needed! The Covid-19 pandemic and rapid digitalisation have impacted architecture that has traditionally been a very slow discipline which uses specific tools with manual designing and thinking processes. Architectural education has seen demand-driven changes in the learning process through the years. Following the switch from the system inherited from the socialist period to the Bologna system, the impact of the pandemic has called for the need to conform to changes in teaching methods and understanding of space.

Contemporary theoretical concepts in architecture are almost unimaginable without new perceptions of the importance of cultural identity. Today, this very sensitive question deserves careful attention, especially in small countries, in which transitional processes are still present. Importance of the architecture in this process is invaluable. Architecture visualizes values of a culture by its formal sensations. That characteristic guides us to perceive development and upgrade the cultural identity from two positions – through both the implications of place and time. In specific complexity the cultural identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina was created out of sources susceptible to the various influences as well as reshaped, embodying social awareness. In this context, an analytical model is constructed for the purpose of finding answers to burning questions in which way architecture and urban forms influence the shaping of the cultural identities of societies in transition and how this cultural identity becomes locally and globally sustainable.