Tradition today
Subtitle: continuity in architecture & society
By: edited by Robert Adam & Matthew Hardy.
Contributors: Adam, Robert, 1948-; Hardy, Matthew.; International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism.
Publisher: WIT; WIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Southampton; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781845640668
Subjects: Architecture and society -- Congresses.; Historicism in architecture -- Congresses.; Tradition (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The nature of tradition. Transcending time: rethinking the invention of tradition / Cesare Poppi; title: Religion and tradition: patterns of migration, conversion and enculturation within globalisation and cultural change / Clive Erricker; title: Links in a chain: antiquity and the present in building / Andrew Clegg. Law, legibility & language. Ancient letter carving and computer type design / Richard Kindersley; title: Language as tradition / Viktor Zhivov; title: Tradition and innovation in the common law / Michael Lobban. Tradition & diversity. Tradition and diversity in food and gastronomy / Lynne Chatterton; title: Tradition in the architecture of Islam / Khaled Azzam; title: Hidden diversity in the traditional arts / Alexander Stoddart. Building & places. Traditional architecture: why communities need it / Robert Adam; title: Tradition today: traditional urbanism / Léon Krier; title: Dymanics of nature in buildings / Hans Kolstad.