Spanish Colonial Revival Restoration
Fairfax & Sammons’ creative restoration of a Spanish Colonial Revival style house in South Florida respects architect John Volk’s original design.
Brick: A Catalog History Using the APT Building Technology Heritage Library
The Building Technology Heritage Library is a free, online research library of pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books, and builder’s technical guides.
The Decorative Arts Trust Awards Research Grants to 13 Emerging Scholars
The Decorative Arts Trust is pleased to announce the 13 recipients of their annual Summer Research Grants.
New ICAA WMA Chapter President: Peter H. Miller Hon. AIA
A letter from Peter H. Miller, the new president of the WMA ICAA chapter.
Buying Guide Photos from the June 2020 Issue
Each issue of Traditional Building features photos to accompany the Buying Guide Listings; here are the photos appearing in this issue along with informative captions.
Restoration of Steel Window Frames and Hardware
Dryden Architecture and Design works with Seekircher Steel Window to bring post-WWI window frames and hardware back to their original form and function.
Restoration of Steel Window Frames and Hardware
Dryden Architecture and Design works with Seekircher Steel Window to bring post-WWI window frames and hardware back to their original form and function.
Marble Care & Repair
Marble has been used for millennia to construct our buildings.
Carbon, Energy, and Building Conservation
Strategies that move us toward compliance with new energy codes.
Mastering Masonry
Continuing the education, awareness, and appreciation of masonry.
Relamping Lady Liberty
The original torch shines again after a meticulous conservation.
Historically Accurate Hardware
A look at companies making high-end knobs, hinges, latches and levers for period buildings.
Welcome to Traditional Building
Founded in 1988, Traditional Building magazine provides valuable information for architects, designers and others who are interested in traditional architecture and historic preservation in commercial and institutional buildings. Suppliers of hard-to-find traditional products such as wood windows, columns, historically styled hardware, lighting and much more can be found in the Buying Guides, while features, blogs and news items provide up-to-date insights into this field.
Mid-Atlantic Steel Fabrication
Provides metal fabrication services using state-of-the-art equipment for laser cutting, metal fabrication, aluminum fabrication, CNC forming services, welding, countersinking, 3D CAD Design, powder coating & decorative metal fabrication.
Brick: A Catalog History Using the APT Building Technology Heritage Library
The Building Technology Heritage Library is a free, online research library of pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books, and builder’s technical guides.
My Old House Attic
With no place to go but home, I've attended to several projects around the house and yard, which I'd not gotten around to. These projects include: reading back issues of our Home Group magazines; sorting through the junk mail; planting new trees and shrubs in my garden; power washing the back porch and cleaning out the attic.
Three 20th-Century Cities
Three memorable and familiar cities use their buildings and urbanism in ways that reveal their very different purposes, sacred, secular, and horrifically vile.
The Awakened Craftsman
A philosophically informed consideration of the craftsman's progression from apprenticeship to mastery.
