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Traces of Tradition in Architecture Today

1	Tradition (as identity in the history) of the space, time, circumstances, nation, culture  forms the function, construction and shape of architecture. It is the point of the recognition.
2	Recognition is the element of identity. 
3	Identity is a complex of recognitions, taking active part in co-exsistence: it is the system.
4	The system is made of needs, possibilities, wishes of user, and abilities of builder.
5	Abilitiy  is essential part of  both customer and builder.
6	Customer orders purpose of the architecture, depending on wishes and circumstances. Those are the starting points for the builder.
7	Builder connects technics and technology with his own expert knowledge, with customer's orders as well as with trends of the time, in the profession, of course.
8	Trends of architecture follow experiences, economic possibilities, and improvements in the profession.
9	Economy defines the limits of culture, because the culture itself represents the reflexion of economic results as well as relations in the society.
10	Progress of science, knowledge and culture declares better results in use, construction and in aestetical values of each realization. Use and usefullness,  taking in place: those two  elements, connecting in harmony and in logical correlativness are the essential parts of culture in architecture.

Can we wish more?
Culture is only the harmony of progress, technic, technology, economy, relations in the society as well as tradition.
So we are at the beginning again. Or in the unended circle, we can overbuild in quality only, with growing up the culture. It is the point.

Borut Juvanec