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‘Wherever a few should gather’
Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 2020 Due to a process of secularization many parish communities need to redefine their church use, reducing the liturgical space and bringing in other functions. In this contribution, we elaborate on the process of adapting existing churches to this reality.
Nikolaas Vande Keere +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 644-666, May 2026.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city's circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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The Nebuly Coat de John Meade Falkner : mélange des genres, unité du mythe personnel
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2003 After having written a ghost story with The Lost Stradivarius and a story for boys with Moonfleet, John Meade Falkner once again uses the rules of genre literature for his third and last novel, The Nebuly Coat, which presents a plot based on a dubious ...
Isabelle Guillaume
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Gothic Revival and the Possibility of “Gothic Survival”
Observatory of Culture, 2018 The notion of “Gothic survival” is still prevalent in literature on Gothic revival architecture in England. This concept implies the possibility of the unreflexive survival of Gothic architectural tradition in some distant provincial regions, where architects, searching connections with the past or folk traditions, could find it.
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the renovation of the Naiku Sanshuden (1969) in Ise Jingu, addressing how public architecture within sacred precincts can be renewed while preserving sanctity. The project redefined publicness by transforming a massive postwar reinforced‐concrete (RC) structure into an open, timber‐integrated space that harmonizes with ...
Shinnosuke Tsuchiya
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Reflections on William Burges and E. W. Godwin
19This article examines the decades-long friendship between two prominent art-architects of the nineteenth century: William Burges (1827–1881) and E. W. Godwin (1833–1886).
Susan Weber
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History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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Analysis of Gothic Revival churches designed by Stanislaw Majerski located in Podkarpacie District
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 The main purpose of this article was to perform an analysis of the geometric characteristics for Gothic Revival churches located in the Podkarpacie District.
Gosztyła Marek, Lichołai Rafał
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William Morris, a Transcultural Artist and Man of Letters
Linguaculture, 2020 William Morris is extremely famous for his career as a designer and one of the founders of the whole movement of the Arts and Crafts in Late Victorian England.
Isabelle Gadoin
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