Traditional Architecture

Traditional architecture serves the public, common good by using a vestibule to make a clear connection between the public and private realms.

Why can't we build things the way we used to? A traditional Eastern response to a contemporary Western question.

Classical traditions brought to life.

Architecture team Imanol Iparraguirre and Aritz Díez Oronoz have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition.

The classical is the indispensable contributor to the common good.

An approach to building that can sustain us ecologically, enrich us culturally and create places we're happy to call home.

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.

The L'Enfants, a group of young architects in the DC area, go head-to-head with their classical designs...on cocktail napkins.

David B. Meleca, FAIA, looks to the past when designing new churches and other buildings.

Excellence in traditional architecture.

Is it possible that Trump could make America beautiful again?

A great deal is changing in the wider world and architecture is bound, eventually, to reflect this.

A review of the book Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century.

Clem Labine reviews Tradition and Invention in Architecture: Conversations and Essays, by Robert A.M. Stern

A noted architectural educator refutes the common arguments Modernists use to dismiss contemporary traditional architecture.