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Undervalued Architecture [PDF]

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2018
For the last five thousand years, the significance of architecture has been constantly decreasing. From the ancient cult, architecture first turned into art, then into a stepdaughter and a servant of the power.
Alexander Rappaport
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The early development of the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria with particular reference to England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
PhDSt Katherine of Alexandria, traditionally martyred c. 305, became one of the most popular saints of the later Middle Ages. Whilst most modem studies concentrate on the period of the cult's greatest popularity in the fourteenth and fifteenth ...
Walsh, Christine Louise
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Experiments with Body Agent Architecture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities
Ayuso, Alessandro
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Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and
Elorduy, Nerea Amorós
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Mazars as memorial monuments of Karakalpakstan of the 18th – early 20th centuries

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2022
The article studies the monuments of grave architecture of the Karakalpaks of the 18th – early 20th centuries: uishik, sagana, fence and gumbez. The most common form of such buildings is a fence of adobe walls, which does not have coatings. In fact, they
Makset A. Karlibaev
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Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores the recent resurgence in the collecting of cult film soundtracks, in particular films stemming from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and often linked to horror and other modes of exploitation cinema.
Sexton, Jamie
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Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
St Cuthbert's literary cult was conceived in the late seventh and early eighth century with the production of three vitae, most importantly Bede's prose Vita sancti Cuthberti.
Crumplin, Sally
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The Sphere: Reading a gender Metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity [PDF]

open access: yesArt History, 1997
This article investigates the spherical form and its derivatives (ribbed dome, tumulus, grotto) in modern public architecture in terms of the interrelationship of gendered metaphors and the representation of political identities. Starting with Boullée's Temple of Nature/Reason of 1793, it follows the use of these architectural bodies as metaphors ...
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The niches of the Vestibule of the Royal Mortuary Cult Complexof the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
The article is about damages to the architecture and wall decoration of niches in theVestibule of Hatshepsut in the Royal Mortuary Cult Complex. Traces of ancient repairs may bediscerned in the distorted layers of limestone blocks and deformed relief ...
Mariusz Caban
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On the Sweet Fragrance of Healing in the Cult of Relics: Scented Oil Lamps, Holy myron and Myroblytes Saints

open access: yesArt-Sanat, 2023
The fragrance, which emerged as an important element of the cult of saints, takes its place in religious rites in the Byzantine healing practices of sacred centers, funeral traditions and adventus ceremonies such as the consecration of an altar in the ...
Lale Doğer, Ceylan Borstlap
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