Greek Reporter

Ishtar Temple Built Nearly 5,000 Years Ago Reveals Origins of Sacred Architecture

Research shows the Ishtar Temple at Assur was built on imported sand, revealing early ritual practices and the timeline of ...
insider.si.edu

Architecture in Asmara : colonial origin and postcolonial experiences / edited by Peter Volgger and Stefan Graf

Introduction / Peter Volgger -- Photo essay : colonial mirrors / Jean Robert. -- part I: Colonial origin. 1st chapter: Colonialism and modernity. Is modern architecture good? / Kathleen ...
Architectural Digest

How Gothic Architecture Became Spooky

Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...
ArchDaily

Slow Food and Slow Architecture: An Analysis of Materials and Construction Systems

At the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, designed by Peter Zumthor, the construction process involved the direct participation of residents from the small Swiss village of Mechernich. Using an internal ...
Los Angeles Times

These 10 buildings tell the story of L.A.’s monumental 1930s, year by year

Maybe this was a pressure-creating-diamonds situation. Somehow in the 1930s, amid the immense stresses of economic collapse, natural disaster, Olympic anxiety and the looming shadow of World War II, ...