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Traditional architecture : timeless building for the twenty-first century

Title
Traditional architecture : timeless building for the twenty-first century / Alireza Sagharachi and Lucien Steil ; foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales ; preface by Léon Krier.
Author
Sagharchi, Alireza
Publication
New York : Rizzoli, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Steil, Lucien
  • Charles III, King of Great Britain, 1948-
  • Krier, Léon
Description
320 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm
Summary
"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"--Amazon.com, viewed March 4, 2014.
Alternative Title
Timeless building for the twenty-first century
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-319).
Contents
Foreword / HRH The Prince of Wales -- Traditional architecture: not a historical but a technological heritage / Léon Krier -- Introduction / Alireza Sagharchi and Lucien Steil -- Modern traditional architecture: notes on an intellectual lineage / Samir Younés -- Projects.
ISBN
  • 9780847840809
  • 0847840808
LCCN
40023472050
OCLC
  • ocn870904756
  • 870904756
  • SCSB-5740301
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries