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Traditional Architecture is a body of knowledge and design technique, created by the experience of our predecessors, and given to us as a guide. It is there for us to use and modify for our contemporary needs and to hand on, hopefully enriched, to our successors.
THE ELEMENTS OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
MEANING
- The understanding that buildings and towns are the products and the servants of human consciousness,intelligence and community
- The acceptance that, even in a deeply dislocated world, traditional architecture is an autonomous and immortal language
CONTINUITY
- The transmission and reception of knowledge as a cultural and educational inheritance...born of close observation and modified by continual adjustment
- The handing down, across the generations, of knowledge, skills and the sustainable techniques of the pragmatic art of building
QUALITY
- The aspiration to excellence in a skilful and fluent synthesis of the arts with craftsmanship
- The recognition that proven ways of building, appropriate use of materials and visual comfort are the basis of an experienced architectural order
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