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Cult of Personality in Monumental Art and Architecture : The Case of Post-Soviet Turkmenistan
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Architecture and the Cult of Fact
Journal of Architectural Education, 1987For 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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Housing and Honouring the Saints: English Medieval Architecture and the Cult of Relics
Studia Liturgica, 2020This 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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The architectural cult of synchronisation
The Journal of Architecture, 19991. 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, 2019In 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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A Study in Architectural Iconography: Kaisersaal and the Imperial Cult
The Art Bulletin, 1982Halls 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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Heliopolis in Egyptian Literary Texts: Sacred Architecture and Cult Activities
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