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#11 The Architectural Reference

#11 The Architectural Reference

Like Hearts of Birds: Ottoman Avian Microarchitecture in the Eighteenth Century

Assistant
30th April 2021
Like Hearts of Birds: Ottoman Avian Microarchitecture in the Eighteenth Century

Christiane Gruber Mosque and grove, ancient wall and garden, palace and courtyard, are full of song, of the cheerful sound of twittering and chirping; everywhere there is the rush of wings, everywhere the busy, active little lives go on.[1]—Edmondo de Amicis (1878) In Istanbul and further afield, a number of…

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#11 The Architectural Reference

Verbal (Re)constructions: Reading Architecture in the Urdu Masnavī

Hannah Williams
30th April 2021
Verbal (Re)constructions: Reading Architecture in the Urdu Masnavī

Nicolas Roth Conjuring up a lavish display of fireworks and illumination in celebration of the Indian spring festival of Holi, the Urdu poet Sa‘ādat Yār Khān ‘Rangīn’ (1757-1835) wrote the following in 1798: Lab-i daryā pah balliyon ko gāṛ Bāndhe ṭhāṭhar unhon ne jaise pahāṛ Bāns un men karoṛhā hī…

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#11 The Architectural Reference

George Dance the Younger Sets Guildhall Alight

Assistant
30th April 2021
George Dance the Younger Sets Guildhall Alight

Zirwat Chowdhury Contemporaries of the architect George Dance the Younger had little doubt that his new façade (built 1788-1790) for the City of London’s Guildhall (Fig. 1) made some form of reference to the artist Williams Hodges’s recently published views of Indian architecture (Fig. 2). As the City’s Clerk of…

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#11 The Architectural Reference

Print and Politics in the First American Architectural Books

Assistant
30th April 2021
Print and Politics in the First American Architectural Books

Carolyn Yerkes A revolutionary referent opens the second architectural book published in the American colonies, a new edition of Abraham Swan’s A Collection of Designs in Architecture, Containing New Plans and Elevations of Houses, for General Use, published in Philadelphia in 1775 (Fig. 1). A central column or pillar, gripped…

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#11 The Architectural Reference

The Amethi Temple in Banaras: Architectural Encounters at a Pilgrimage Center

Assistant
30th April 2021
The Amethi Temple in Banaras: Architectural Encounters at a Pilgrimage Center

Heeryoon Shin Overlooking the sacred Ganges River, the Amethi Temple blends seamlessly into the riverfront vista of Banaras, the celebrated north Indian Hindu pilgrimage city (Fig. 1). Its curvilinear towers mark the building as a Hindu temple following a longstanding architectural tradition, a choice befitting the temple’s location in a…

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