Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century

TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE: TIMELESS BUILDING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is a presentation of 130 architecture projects that reconsiders what it means to practice as a traditional architect in the twenty-first century. Showcased here is a substantial body of work in 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 in this volume 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 depite the enormous economic and cultural pressures of contemporary development. Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century is an optimistic vision of a new breed of traditional architects who possess the necessary7 knowledge, understanding, and tools to enrich the future while honoring the past. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century