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A collection of Traditional Building's popular blogs and opinion-pieces from top professionals in the fields of architecture, restoration, the trades, historic buildings, and more.
Plaster Mouldings & Ornament
British Palladian design realized in traditional plasterwork for a Classical Christian academy in Richmond, VA.
What I Learned at Design and Construction Week in Las Vegas
Design and Construction Week 2019 is the name for two trade shows combined: The Kitchen Bath Industry Show and The International Builder’s Show.
The AIA Firm Survey: Trends in Architecture
A look at the AIA Firm Survey report, which focuses on economic activity and looks inside the practice of architecture to reveal these interesting trends.
The Architect as Citizen
The architect as citizen seeks beauty as the counterpart to justice.
Natural Building & Traditional Craft
An approach to building that can sustain us ecologically, enrich us culturally and create places we're happy to call home.
Urbanism as the Salve on Disunity
Democracy needs neighborhoods where diverse people mingle.
Top Trends for the New Year 2019
What are the hot new trends for the home market? Here are the answers from a variety of sources.
A Craftsman's Philosophy
The opening essay of a series to explore the perennial philosophy of visceral, lived experience.
A Tribute to a Preservation Architect and Educator: Real Time, Real Buildings, Real People
H. Thomas McGrath, FAIA, FAPT, 1950-2018
The National Trust Conference and Old House Markets
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2018 conference message: community, activism, energy conservation and "fostering a creative, fair, sustainable, entrepreneurial economy.”
What I Learned at the Design Leadership Summit
The 2018 Design Leadership Summit for architects, interior designers, custom builders and suppliers to the design trade was held in October in Washington D.C.
Beauty, Sublime and Happiness
The happiness we pursue is more enduring and rewarding than the transient emotional lift of the sublime's novelty and drama. It resides instead in the beauty in the buildings we build and the urbanism we make with tradition’s guidance.
Classicism’s Status Quo
A perspective of where we’re at, how we arrived here and where we might take the world if we have the courage...
The Housing Market: The Road Ahead
New house affordability is still a challenge for first time buyers which bodes well for the sale of existing homes.
Ugly and Useless: A Look at Modern Architecture
David Brussat quotes Nikos Salingaros and Michael Mehaffy to show the advantages of traditional architecture.
The Princeton Eating Clubs
Clifford W. Zink's book about the Princeton Eating Clubs tells the story of these Gilded-Age mansions and their architects.
Urbanism and Happiness: Part 1
What is happiness and how does it relate to urbanism?
Making Dystopia: James Stevens Curl Sacks Modern Architecture
David Brussat discusses books that criticize modern architecture.
Statues in Urbanism, Part 2: Richmond Fumbles
An update on the relevancy of statues in urbanism.
Restoration of Historic Murals in Omaha's Douglas County Courthouse
Read about how the team at BVH Architecture delivered an accurate mural restoration in Omaha's Douglas County Courthouse with methodical forensics and architectural detective work.
Seeing Architecture with a Sharper Eye
Judy Hayward talks about the joy of seeing architecture with clear vision.
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