This drawing was made by Christopher Robin Rådlund, a Swedish painter living in Norway since 1991.
It beautifully illustrates the differences between classical and modernistic cities.
INTBAU
INTBAU is a global network dedicated to creating better places to live through traditional building, architecture, and urbanism.
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"INTBAU's mission is to support and expand the global community who design, make, maintain, study, and enjoy traditional buildings and places."
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FACTS:
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•INTBAU was established in 2001
•NGO organization
•Patron HRH The Prince of Wales- now King Charles III
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•Main office in London
•40 chapters
•9,000 members in more than 100 countries worldwide.
•Monthly meetings online, congresses, and conferences every second year
•support traditional building, the maintenance of the local character, and the use of local materials
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•arrange workshops, summer schools, study tours, conferences, competitions, teaching traditional crafts
•bring up and try to solve major problems concerning build environment ( for example carbon emissions)
•new construction is balanced with the maximum opportunity for adaptive reuse, because ‘the greenest building is the one that is already built’
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The Norwegian chapter was one of the first chapters taking a big role in creating INTBAU.
It is still very active, currently involved as a partner in eleven EEA projects in Poland funded from Norwegian grants.
INTBAU NORGE
INTBAU Norway is an association, that aims to bring together practitioners, academics, community leaders, and general supporters to promote the values of traditional architecture, the maintenance of the local character, and the creation of better places to live. Together we try to find solutions for the major challenges concerning the built environment. We do this through workshops, summer schools, study tours, conferences, awards, and competitions. Members of INTBAU Norway are very committed to alternative development, promoting counter-projects, and winning in several cases.
INTBAU was established in 2001 and has since gained over 30 chapters and nearly 8,000 members in more than 100 countries worldwide. We work under the patronage of our founder, HRH The Prince of Wales.
Intbau Norway board attending Intbau World Congress in London in 2022.
(Arne Sødal-left and Justyna Korotynska from Intbau Norway, Daniel Piotrowski-right from Intbau Poland, Matthew Hardy from The Prince’s Foundation)
Main activities of INTBAU Norway:
• renovation, reconstruction, and promotion of traditional wooden buildings in Norway
• promotion of traditional urban spaces in Norway
• EEA projects for the renovation of monuments in Poland
• EEA Blue-green infrastructure projects in Poland
• EEA projects in Romania, restoration of monuments
• organizing landscape paintings in Transylvania for the last 10 years
• Arkitekturopprøret, a very active Facebook group promoting traditional architecture
Example of one of the Romanian projects: the Kalnoky castle restoration in Miclosoara also being a venue for our painting course.
Website: https://www.intbaunorge.no/
