This paper contains a brief analysis of the road, starting from the path to a modern highway. The analysis was performed in the cultural perspective. It means that the road is not seen as merely physical infrastructure of buildings, but how it constructs a network of knowledge and behavior of the cultures in it. Through this brief review, it is noted that the roads in its history experienced the shift func and meaning . For example , the functions of road that used to bring together both physical and nonphysical, but in its development, it actually has the function to work away. In the most recent phenomenon , road is also synonymous with "window"to display the artificiality of modernity.