
Traditional Architecture
Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century
Rizzoli International Publications (Publisher)
Published on 18. February 2014
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8478-4080-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
500 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 312 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
2230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-4080-9 (9780847840809)
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Persons
Alireza Sagharchi, R.I.B.A., is the principal of Stanhope Gate Architecture+Urban Design. Lucien Steil is an architect and academic who has worked with Leon Krier and Maurice Culot in Brussels at the Archive d'Architecture Moderne and has been a visiting critic at universities in Europe and North America. HRH The Prince of Wales established The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment to improve the quality of people's lives by teaching and practicing timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing, and building. Leon Krier has taught architecture and urbanism at the Royal College of Arts, in London, and at Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Virginia. He received the inaugural Richard Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture.