The Time-Defying Nature of Living Architectural Traditions
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
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This article was originally published on Common Edge.
Traditional architecture is perceived as being historical architecture, both by the general public and by design professionals. Put another way, “traditional” = “style.” There’s no awareness of the process of tradition that creates what’s later considered a style. Modernism takes this perception one step further and frames traditional architecture as “not of our time,” and therefore obsolete.