Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century

By Lucien Steil and Alireza Sagharchi

Book Overview

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, Andr s 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847840808
• ISBN13: 9780847840809
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.3" x 12.4"