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Ecology is a field of study that emerged as one of the sub-research areas of biology science. Ecology, which focuses on the study of the relationship of all natural beings with each other and their surroundings, sees nature as a grateful system of parts that work in harmony with each other, which cannot be regarded independently of each other. Culture is a complex set of patterns that the individual and society, in the natural environment in which they are, obtained as a result of experiences, transmitted to future generations, traditions, patterns, attitudes and behaviors. Therefore, the natural environment plays a key role in the realization of all kinds of cultural production.  In this sense, ecology has also influenced the social sciences that do cultural research from different points of view. The concept of cultural ecology in social sciences is the fields of research that work on the adaptation, evolution, process of societies to the environment and the oral, written, material, behavioral production in this process. Culture preserves all kinds of production which it reveals, in the framework of traditional common acceptance. In this context, the approach considered "traditional ecological knowledge" is the whole of all the ideas, discoveries, practices, beliefs and behaviors that societies implement to improve the quality of life in the face of all the conditions and possibilities of the natural environment. Therefore, traditional ecological knowledge is a way of understanding cultural creations coherent with nature, for popular science at the intersection of social sciences. Traditional ecological knowledge from a public science perspective is the basic guide of mutual interaction in a creative, guiding and protective nature, with the traditional world view of societies or a series of attitudes and behaviors that can be called popular philosophy or mentality. With this view, traditional ecological knowledge reveals the causal-resultat link to the common attitudes and behaviors of a traditional environment, which is considered as a community of people who agree to preserve the information they create within themselves. It also has a local character. Traditional ecological knowledge is closely related to the research staff of public sciences such as public medicine, public veterinary, public beliefs, public calendar, public economy and public architecture. Traditional architectural knowledge, established over the years by the method of trial-fake, is determined and applied according to the geography, climate, material conditions provided by the ecological environment. Beypazarı District, selected as an example area, is located in the northwest of Ankara and in a geography convenient for use of stone, wood, curtain, curtain in terms of architectural materials. Beypazarı has examples carrying the distinctive characteristics of Turkish housing architecture. These houses are not only material, but in the geographical area of a earthquake, they also take into account the measures that the traditional construction concept takes against the earthquake. Today, while the concrete buildings, even with a very low-intensity earthquake, are destroyed, these old buildings, built in traditional methods, are standing down. It is certain that the ecological universe surrounding the local population is determinant in a number of practices towards beliefs. In the construction of some parts of their houses, Beypazarı has also made it possible for a number of practices to pass into life by combining the existence of natural environment and beliefs. “Why about the many behaviors that occur in the public life?” And “How?” The answer to their questions is hidden in the traditional ecological knowledge. Traditional Beypazari houses, within the data of this information, present local architects’ integrated logical solutions with nature. This article evaluates the influence of traditional ecological knowledge, manufacturing materials and methods on Beypazari houses in the context of relevant beliefs. During the work, written source scan, observation, property methods were used. According to the data obtained, there are recommendations on the future approach to the protection and sustainability of this information.