ملخص
The general expression "Environment" refers to everything that surrounds human beings and can be represented by factors related to the natural, industrial and social environment. Such environmental factors have a great impact on the architecture forms through the ages. Architecture was always a real reflection of the environment and the best addressee of the peoples' Civilization throughout the ages, it shows the improvement of people's culture, and its suitability to the environment. Current architecture reveals its similarity in almost every part of the world in contrast to vernacular architecture, which is usually environmentally appropriate, where builders traditionally had to built with respect to environment. This study clarifies the meaning of the environment in all its elements, and the effect of each element on the formation of the Libyan Architecture (Traditional and Contemporary), in an attempt to determine the characteristics of the environmental impacts on local and global architecture, to establish environmental solutions, that lead to an architecture belonging to space and time with special identity.