ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the ways that architect-planners sought to make buildings that reflected the past by using traditional styles of decoration and traditional building techniques. The main architects associated with this approach wanted to make buildings and cities that reflected these temporal qualities in their physical fabric. The architect Gianugo Polesello, who was associated with the School of Venice, tried to explain this by arguing that types are architectural figures which have been reduced to their elementary geometrical nature'. Advocates of the more orthodox typology sought inspiration from history directly, believing that traditional architecture represented truths that could be used to restore to more stable and virtuous lifestyles. The belief that architectural types should evolve over time in the same way as the skeletons of animals contributed to the idea of turning back to architectural tradition in the 1950s and 60s. Alan Colquhoun argued, however, that architecture could not fail to refer to wider culture.
