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Statements In Stone: The Politics Of Architecture In Charlemagne's Aachen, Mary Katherine Tipton
Statements In Stone: The Politics Of Architecture In Charlemagne's Aachen, Mary Katherine Tipton
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Statements in Stone is an intersectional and preliminary study of the architecture and Social aspects of the palatine complex of Aachen Germany during the reign of Charlemagne approximately spanning from the 790s to 814CE. The interplay between built space and its Social uses inform the larger Social understandings and interpretations of power and authority. Court poetry written by contemporaries and courtiers of Charlemagne allow readers to glimpse the court as it moved through and interacted with the built environment. Architectural precedents inform the connotations associated with the spaces of Aachen, while spatial theory will provide a framework for understanding the …
Eulogy To Architecture: The Three-Dimensional Collage City Of Nostalgia, Molly A. Evans
Eulogy To Architecture: The Three-Dimensional Collage City Of Nostalgia, Molly A. Evans
Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses
In our time of existence on the Earth, human beings have designed and realized beautiful things. As we face the challenges that confront us today, we begin to understand the fragility of humankind’s creations. Many of the world’s cities and buildings lie in ruins, gazed at by tourists, studied by scholars, while more lie buried in the ground for hundreds of years, some never to be rediscovered. Everything around us is an accumulation of knowledge and ideas built upon for centuries, now facing questionable circumstances. Of course, the more recent Aleppo and other Middle Eastern cities have fallen subject to …