Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century

by Alireza Sagharchi and Lucien Steil

Leon Krier and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (Foreword)

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A comprehensive overview of current trends in classicist and vernacular architecture. This book presents 130 projects that reconsider what it means to practice as a traditional architect in the twenty-first century, including a substantial body of work from non-Western countries as well as work by contemporary masters of classical design such as Robert A. M. Stern, Allan Greenberg, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Quinlan and Francis Terry. The projects assembled here highlight the awareness of a sustainable localism and the continuity of traditional building crafts on a global scale and reveal the resilience and originality of traditional building cultures despite the enormous economic and cultural pressures of contemporary development. This is an optimistic vision of a new breed of traditional architects who endeavor to enrich the future while honoring the past.
  • ISBN10 0847840808
  • ISBN13 9780847840809
  • Publish Date 18 February 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rizzoli International Publications