Architecture Quote by Ivan Illich

“Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.”

— Fadi Hattendorf

“The old culture reflected fundamental human needs while respecting natural limits. And it worked. It worked for nature, and it worked for people. The…

— Helena Norberg-Hodge

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends…

— John Dewey

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

— Ruth Benedict

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

— Nicholas Wade

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is…

— Mu Xin

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots,…

— Lidia Bastianich

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're…

— Anonymous

“The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a concept of ‘living traditions’, which suggests that traditions are entirely distinct from consensus and a simple repetition…

— Svend Brinkmann

Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these…

— Mark Bradford

“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as tradition affects…

— Sharanya Haridas