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Building Types and Traditions as Concepts

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Architecture and Design Atlas. "Building Types and Traditions as Concepts." Accessed September 9, 2026. https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/concept/building-types-and-traditions-as-concepts.

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Architecture and Design Atlas. (n.d.). Building Types and Traditions as Concepts. Retrieved September 9, 2026, from https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/concept/building-types-and-traditions-as-concepts

BibTeX

@misc{architectureanddesignatlas-building-types-and-traditions-as-concept,
  author = {Architecture and Design Atlas},
  title = {Building Types and Traditions as Concepts},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/concept/building-types-and-traditions-as-concepts},
  note = {Accessed September 9, 2026}
}

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.