Traditional architecture
Subtitle: timeless building for the twenty-first century
By: Alireza Sagharachi and Lucien Steil ; foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales ; preface by Léon Krier
Contributors: Steil, Lucien, author; Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948-, writer of added commentary; Krier, Léon, writer of preface
Publisher: Rizzoli; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780847840809
Subjects: Classicism in architecture; Pictorial works; History; Vernacular architecture; Modern Architecture
Other titles: Timeless building for the twenty-first century
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, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-319).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- HRH The Prince of Wales; title: Traditional architecture: not a historical but a technological heritage  -- Léon Krier; title: Introduction  -- Alireza Sagharchi and Lucien Steil; title: Modern traditional architecture: notes on an intellectual lineage  -- Samir Younés; title: Projects.