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Notes
1 We might imagine a 13th principle, Avoid Excess Population Growth, but there is not space for it here.
2 See Ian Brocklebank (2006): “The Lime Spectrum”, Context 96, November 2006. London: IHBC
for a good account of the range of lime strengths and traditional additives. Available at ihbc.org.uk/
context_archive/97/brocklebank/lime.html
3 See Oliver Rackham (1986), The History of the Countryside. London: J. M. Dent for a full account of
traditional management of woodlands in the UK.
4 See proportions.de for a comprehensive discussion of proportioning systems.
5 As in the well known examples of the Ise shrine in Japan, and the annual refacing of mosques in Mali.
Dr. Matthew Hardy, RAIA, FRSA, RIBA, is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. After working at the Foundation to
establish INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism)
in 2001, he served as its Secretary until early 2009 when he moved back to look after
the Foundation’s academic education programmes. Matthew has lectured and published
widely in support of INTBAU, editing the book Tradition Today for INTBAU in 2008 (with
Robert Adam) and The Venice Charter Revisited in 2009. He has taught widely on both
course-work and summer programmes, as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford
University, Visiting Professor with the University of Notre Dame, and Lecturer with the
University of South Australia. Dr. Hardy has also maintained a practice in architecture and
urban design in Europe and Australia since registering as an architect in South Australia
in 1983. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Wales, a Bachelor
of Architecture from the University of Adelaide and a Diploma from The Prince of Wales’s
Institute of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an International
Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Royal Australian
Institute of Architects, and was recently elected Chair of the Council for European Urbanism.