My response to Ranakpur led me to examine the limitations of my approach to architecture and, for the first time, the history of the interaction of narrative and architecture in Western religious buildings.
Sami Angawi, a Saudi architect who founded the Haj Research Centre, which aims to preserve the history and architecture of Mecca and Medina, Islam's second city, is apprehensive about the plans, reasonably pointing out that in order to design a mosque, you have to visit it.
The latest instalment in this series concerns the archaeology, history, art and architecture of the province of Ghazni which we sincerely hope contributes to greater knowledge and understanding of the historic city of Ghazni and also sparks new interest among the Afghan youth to help safeguard heritage under threat from looting and destruction.
The stately and fantastical architecture, the history hanging in the air of the markets, the scent of jasmine in the ladies' car of the train, the gardens and street vendors and balloon-wallahs and intellectuals in old libraries - it will all take you in if you let it.
Start with a couple of days in elegant Edinburgh to revel in the Georgian architecture of New Town and the history of Edinburgh Castle, which broods silently over the city from its craggy perch.
The tour starts in Plaza Congreso where Jed gives tour participants an overview of local history, shares insights into the surrounding architecture and teaches the group how to formally prepare, serve and drink mate, traditional Argentinean tea.
Fiona Spiers, head of the HLF for Yorkshire, said the award would "help create a vibrant piazza which will retain the integrity of the 18th Century architecture and celebrate its role in West Yorkshire history".
During his junior year at Yale, Romualdez signed up for a history of architecture course taught by the renowned Vincent Scully.
Mr. Rybczynski and Mr. Olin do an admirable job of conveying the history of Vizcaya, but their book is not one of those lavishly photographed, coffee-table architecture books that have become so common in recent years.
The capital of the state, also called Guanajuato, has long been admired for its rich history and colonial architecture.
Also, a large part of my job is talking to people, talking to students, talking to citizens, bringing tours and explaining not so much the architecture of The Capitol but the history, what goes on and what has gone on in this building.
The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
It had been a few tough days of not really appreciating the art, architecture and history enough -- no matter how many hours I had devoted to museums.
The property finally reopened as the Hotel Parq Central in 2010 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, thanks to its railway history and impressive Italianate architecture, featuring arched windows, a flat roof and exterior baluster staircases.
Roberts is a director at the London-based property and planning consultancy Turnberry Consulting, and in his latest book, Racecourse Architecture, he and co-author Isabelle Taylor trace the history of race courses, beginning with the Circus Maximus and the first century B.
They cover a vast range of subjects from religious studies to mathematics, medicine and astronomy, music, literature, poetry, architecture and esoteric practices, and bear witness to the rich history of the city as a cultural crossroads and centre of learning.
Robert Venturi's "gentle manifesto, " published as "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" in 1966, called for a reconsideration of the lessons of history and the subtleties of spatial relationships and enriching ornament of the past.
But whatever the contradictions of a life designed to provoke and dazzle, Philip Johnson ceaselessly promoted architecture as the art that has shaped the great monuments and cities of history, and he sincerely believed that we owe the future a legacy of equal value.
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"ARM and our partners have a long history of working with, and supporting, open source software development for complex SoCs based on the ARM architecture, " said Warren East, ARM CEO.
Mwanza, he said, contains a lot of 1960s architecture that has remained more or less intact thanks to the country's comparatively peaceful recent history.
After Voorjans graduated from the College of Architecture in Hasselt in Belgium, where his parents owned a furniture store, he briefly studied art history in Siena, followed by a course at Sotheby's in London.
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