Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century

Author:  Alireza Sagharchi , By (author)  Lucien Steil , Foreword by  HRH The Prince of Wales , Preface by  Leon Krier

Format: Hardback | 320 pages

Dimensions: 237 x 314 x 35mm | 2,250g

Publication date: 18 Feb 2014

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.