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Tradition today : continuity in architecture & society / edited by Robert Adam & Matthew Hardy.

Contributor(s): Adam, Robert, 1948- | Hardy, Matthew | International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism Conference (2002).
Publisher: Southampton : WIT, 2008Description: xiv, 142 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781845640668 (hbk.).Subject(s): Architecture and society -- Congresses | Historicism in architecture -- Congresses | Tradition (Philosophy) -- CongressesDDC classification: 720.103
Contents:
The nature of tradition - Transcending time: rethinking the invention of tradition / Cesare Poppi - Religion and tradition: patterns of migration, conversion and enculturation within globalisation and cultural change / Clive Erricker - Links in a chain: antiquity and the present in building / Andrew Clegg - Law, legibility & language - Ancient letter carving and computer type design / Richard Kindersley - Language as tradition / Viktor Zhivov - Tradition and innovation in the common law / Michael Lobban - Tradition & diversity. Tradition and diversity in food and gastronomy / Lynne Chatterton - Tradition in the architecture of Islam / Khaled Azzam - Hidden diversity in the traditional arts / Alexander Stoddart. Building & places - Traditional architecture: why communities need it / Robert Adam - Tradition today: traditional urbanism / Leon Krier - Dynamics of nature in buildings / Hans Kolstad.
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Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

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