In the mood for Architecture: Tradition, Modernism and Serendipity seeks to intervene in the polemics between tradition and modernity and between modernism and classicism, mediating between entrenched positions with a theoretical sketch, or perhaps a meditative fragment, that evokes a contemporary architecture not afraid to acknowledge both tradition and modernity, that embraces newness and originality but also recognizes the role of imitation and convention.

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