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  1. ...If you ever get the chance, watch this approx 90-min talk he did during COVID-19 lockdowns, on the weirdness of the Pantheon, in Rome.

    youtu.be/PB5u-dKl9t4

    Oh, you didn't think the Pantheon was particularly weird? Welcome to the world of rigorous architectural history and theory, folks. These people REALLY know how to look carefully at things.

    ...But you'll need to be ready to cope with phrases like 'The intercolumnations are unusually wide'.

    #Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory

  2. Brief detour while running errands today. Who knows where this is, without image searching? #ArchitecturalHistory

  3. The corner of Madurai’s Perumal Temple vimana rises in precise tiers, its stone carvings sharp against the pale sky. Tripe’s long exposure bleached the courtyard empty, turning sacred space into measured geometry—was this clarity or erasure?

    How might the missing color and movement change what we see?
    #ClevelandMuseumofArt #19thCenturyPhotography #ArchitecturalHistory
    clevelandart.org/art/2020.209

  4. Designs Unseen: Landmarks Remixed

    See new images of how famous landmarks like St. Paul's Cathedral and Statue of Liberty might have looked with their original, bigger plans.

    #LandmarkRemixed, #ArchitecturalHistory, #StPaulsCathedral, #StatueOfLiberty, #UnrealizedDesigns

    newsletter.tf/famous-landmarks

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