Traditional Architecture
Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century
Alireza Sagharchi author Lucien Steil author Léon Krier author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications
Published:18th Feb '14
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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, Andrés 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.
ISBN: 9780847840809
Dimensions: 314mm x 237mm x 35mm
Weight: 2250g
320 pages