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The architectural cult of synchronisation

The Journal of Architecture, 1999
1. There is much talk of memory loss in architecture today. The symptoms are clear. Bodies now last longer than the buildings they occupy. Buildings no longer hold memory. Their memorializing function has been displaced by images. Buildings are at best fragile images, props in heterogeneous publicity campaigns. Digital archives have taken over the role
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The Rise of the Architectural Cult

Inference: International Review of Science, 2019
In Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism, James Stevens Curl argues that modernist architecture is ill-adapted to human needs. Joining his voice with Curl’s, Nikos Salingaros describes how the style became internationally preferred, despite its failings.
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Architecture and the Cult of Fact

Journal of Architectural Education, 1987
For those who subscribe to this cultural disposition, (there are few in contemporary culture who, in some measure, do not) the present proliferation of information might be regarded as an orgy of raw data from which brave new ever-advancing worlds of "fact" may yet be fashioned. For those who continue to insist on skepticism even, or especially, in the
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A Study in Architectural Iconography: Kaisersaal and the Imperial Cult

The Art Bulletin, 1982
Halls in Roman baths and gymnasia with rich multi-story Facades have been associated by scholars with the Imperial Cult and called Kaisersale. By studying their architectural origins and symbolic content, this article shows that indeed they were religious places, honoring the Emperor and dedicated to his cult, but not official seats of the cult like ...
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Morphologies of Sacra Privata in the Roman House: Architecture, Furnishings, Cults

2023
The article proposes an examination of the concept of private sacredness in the Roman world, understood as that set of actions, creeds, and cultic and ritual practices enacted in the domestic sphere by the inhabitants of urban and country homes. Through the enunciation of the elements necessary for the study of this phenomenon, a number of questions ...
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Architecture, Territory, Traditions. The Cult of the Madonna del Carmine called “delle Galline” in Pagani

2021
Using graphic, photographic, and iconographic documentation, this paper investigates the celebrations of the Madonna del Carmine, “immaterial asset of Italy” according to the Central Institute for Demoetnoanthropology of MIBAC, and their link with the architecture of the town of Pagani, in Southern Italy.
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Metaphysics of Natural Light in Cult Architecture

Light & Engineering
This article is devoted to the use of light in the architecture, and especially of cult architecture. For many centuries, people have considered the light of the sun and the flame of a candle to be the best ways to glorify God. The culture of light and its symbolic significance in cult architecture have passed through the centuries.
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Architectural finds and founder cult evidence in the Heroon at Orgame

CaieteARA. Arhitectură. Restaurare. Arheologie, 2017
The article provides a preliminary description of Late-Classical-Hellenistic roof tiles found in the offerings trench of tumulus TA95 at Orgame (Argamum) and suggests the existence of a roofing structure in close connection with it. The identification of the tile types was complicated in light of their fragmentary state.
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Beyond Middleware and QoS – Service-Oriented Architectures – Cult or Culture?

2005
State-of-the-art middleware such as CORBA, RMI or .NET Remoting represents a stack of interoperability layers to connect different islands of code. While all these existing solutions are widely used for the development of commercial and industrial software, they still lack essential features: First of all, there is no accepted middleware standard to ...
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Housing and Honouring the Saints: English Medieval Architecture and the Cult of Relics

Studia Liturgica, 2020
This article considers the architecture of English medieval churches and how it was affected by its function as a setting for the cult of saints. It looks at the impression which the patrons of medieval buildings were hoping to make on the minds and spirits of those who visited them.
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