FROM TRADITION TO GOOD MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Analysing the past can help us to create future development of architecture. Past experiences should contain traditional, vernacular architecture, often defined as architecture without architects but also all modern movements, international daily fashion, achievements of modern technology, healthy intellect for what is enough and what is too much. Traditional, regional architecture was built up by knowledge of many generations, inherited from one generation to the other, built up by careful examination of real needs and rational, functional and economical thinking, built up by dilema between authors work and anonymous work of local masters. Investigating these traditional elements for today's architecture is more complicated than is usually thought. This architecture is more or less just a platform to create new architecture, a good and reliable startpoint but not the only one. This paper deals with very complicated "rights of the game" to create good modern architecture.