What defines a tradition, and what makes it last? How can new schools of architecture build on, learn from, and pay homage to time-tested practices without relegating them to the past? In this issue, we reconsider traditional architecture, not in the form of dormant relics or museumified artifacts, but as living, enduring examples. Through interviews and features with expert architects and craftspeople, we examine its material and immaterial positions at the intersection of history, community, and identity.