Traditional architecture

The concept of a building type is first articulated in the early nineteenth-century writings of French theoretician Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849). The definition of type is closely associated with imitation as a guiding principle of classicism and, conversely, opposed to the notion of exemplar model. It consists in tracing back to an “original principle” drawn from “the nature of each region, historical notions, and the monuments themselves found in mature art.”1 Type is in turn reported to the expression of character, to which there are three levels: essential character pertains to how a work of architecture respects the universal laws of nature embodied in theRead More →