ABSTRACT
The authors included in this chapter center their arguments on the role tradition occupies (or should occupy) in the creation of architecture. Writing in the mid-1980s, Dennis Alan Mann frames his essay “Between Traditionalism and Modernism” as a sharp critique of the architectural education of this era. In “Newness, Tradition, and Identity,” Juhani Pallasma states that tradition maintains and safeguards the collective and accumulated existential wisdom of countless generations. Building on the work of Umberto Eco, Alan Mann explains that creativity in architecture can only exist within a recognized field. Within his critique of architectural education, he states that the “architect and the student of architecture must first be taught to recognize and understand the characteristics of the existing codes, those with which a society identifies” in order to develop architecture that can connect with the people of that place.
