Building Types and Traditions as Concepts

Building types and building traditions treated as ideas in their own right rather than as individual built works: vernacular architecture as a tradition of building without formally trained architects, and the skyscraper as a building type whose emergence reshaped architectural practice. Belongs here: any concept entity whose subject is a category of building or a building tradition, as distinct from a single named building. Does not belong here: individual named buildings, which are entities of type building, not concept.