#first year architecture

[atomicradiogirl]

victor lundy’s WWII sketches 2

[iamhereinthebg]

Let's talk about the clock keepers boundary!

(warning: spoilers until chapter 124!!)

I've had some guess on where they could be from so let's look at what we have in the manga for now. I will keep things on surface level for the most part but it's just some things I noticed!

The first mention of the town is in chapter 111, where we finally have a view on their boundary.

A lot of fans already guessed from their clothes that they were not from Japan, this panel definitely confirms it and even points more precizely to a European country, mostly Western Europe. And also a country where Winter with snow exist.

It's also not an English speaking country, since Akane cannot understand the language and we know he has english classes at school.

Now there are several things we can look at to have more clues!

First, the architecture.

This type of house is called Timbered framed houses. It’s important to note that the roofs on those houses are really really sharp here. Which means theywere built for snow, so it can slide off the roofs more easily. The trees are also pines, something that can be found in a lot of Europe. (wood was needed to be able to create houses made of wood/with visible Framework( Little note: I know Italy was a guess for a lot of person because of the link to Pinocchio, but Italy main material for houses is stone not wood. And it is also not known for its winter.)

Here we can also see bricks which is something more associated to countries like Germany, Belgium or the Nertherlands, we don't have the colors so we can't guess from which minerals it was made for now.

But we have even more informations when we look at chapter 124!

The bridge and tower may be inspired by a fortified city, something that you could find A LOT in Western Europe during the middle age, not a lot of cities still have their entire walls but you can still see it if you go into old medieval towns. We can also see something that looks like a Belfry on several panels. Towers used mostly to indicate each passing hour of the day (may be a campanile or a bell tower (the difference is wether it's linked to religion or not basically)

Second! Let's do a little bit of clock making history!

I won't go into details, but there are some countries to point for this. England, The Netherlands and Germany. We already took out England before and we can easily erase Nertherlands from the list with the next step (my favorite one).

The food! I already had my suspicions confirmed with this bonus art from volume 22.

First of all, they have tea which is not something that was in Europe before the XVII century. But let's look at the sweets they have here.

Chocolates which look close to Belgian chocolate ( I say Belgian but other countries' chocolate is pretty close to it) , Christstollen Cake, and Spiztbuden.

We have even more to look at with the new chapter! And they confirm that it's indeed a stollen cake.

With all these foods it's now pretty obvious which area the clock keepers are inspired from.

Stollen cakes are German cakes, ginger cookies are from Germany too. I will also add that there is a chance the crescent moon cookies are VanilleKipferl. We have another panel showing Sausages and bread. Only the Almond is something not typical from Germany but which clearly was all over Western Europe with trades.

Their city already looked like the 'perfect christmas city' you can see in movies, inspired by German culture. And they also mention Mulled Wine which is THE beverage to take in any chritmas market in Europe.

Chritmas markets are inspired and coming from Germany first, but I wanna point something more.

My main guess was, Nuremberg, the city where the ancestor of the pocket watch was created, the Nuremberg Egg. It's also a Fortified city and it has forests around it. It's also known for its Ginger cookies!

So Germany would be a great pic, but the more I think about it the more I can also see the link to another region: Alsace.

Alsace is a region from France right now BUT it's a mixt of german and french culture (I will not make a history lesson but it is a place that always switched between France and Germany basically, now it's French).

All the food mentionned before are also made in the Alsace region!

It's situated in the Vosges, a chain of mountains known to have a lot of forets of pines and which is known to have villages like this:

Which were also the main inspirations for movies like Howl's moving castle for example. You can see the similarities between the artchitectures

The first ever Chritmas Market was in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, when it was German and it spread accross Europe after.

I will now look at something I usually don't do because I exclude Aus from canon but it's just a funny thing to point out.

This au shows a snow town inspired by ginger bread houses. I just find it funny because Aoi is shown as a baker, with bread (which are not baguette I think, it's way larger here) but with some croissant on her table (disclaimer: Croissant are not french at first, this form here is, but it's from Austria otherwise) And Kako clearly has something similar to a Wine bottle in his hands. This au is the only one featuring them, was given with their volumes and the vibes are really similar to their boundary.

I would say no matter what it's definitely closer to German culture but I wanted to point out this region which is known for it's Christmas season and its typical houses.

I will mostly say that it's an inspiration from this region of Europe, I don't know if a real country is the reference for it since we don't even know where tbhk takes place, but it's always funny to look at those things :DD

Little bonus:

In a more messy note, the clothes. I put them at the end because besides their hats, I had no idea how to describe it, since it seems pretty typical of what people could wear in winter.

I did the research in the other way, to look for German and Alsacian clothing to see if it match and it kinda does but I don't think it's speficific to this region. The girls wear classic white Charlotte and big clothes with layers for Winter.

The clock keepers clothes are different, it looks like a mixt of Japanese and western European clothing (especially from england).

Their main outfits for Akane and Kako really just look like a typical waistcoast/costume you can find in the XIXth century in Europe and Mirai's seems more inspired by a mixt of a Kimono with several layers(she also has sandals and frills) and a coat? The little knots Kako and Akane have on their coats look like something inspired from Mizuhiki knots too (I actually saw a costume with those exact same knots in a museum but I didn't take a picture rip)

So I would say they probably changed slowly their attire when they arrived in Japan, we don't know since how many times they are here, but we know that what is happening in the deeper place of the boundary is linked to memories previous to their arrival. According to their origin I think we can say that it's pretty sure they arrived after the Meiji/during the Meiji Era in Japan (1868/1912), since it's a this time Japan mostly imported Western culture (for clothing here, the first contact was before this. And note: it was mostly rich people who dressed like this). And If we look at some others dates like the things they are eating, used to have or even their clothes, I would say it's more probably the Meiji Era and not in the XVs.

Another note is that their clocks have the numbers written in japanese on it (in the og version but it maye just be so it's readable for the japanese readers? idk if it's a choice or not).

I haven't searched much on their clothes but it was still something I wanted to note here ^^

[cometnoodle]

thought itd be fun to put edelgard in (vaguely) historical outfits from 1180s-ish, byzantine-ish and the holy roman emperors' coronation regalia lol

[galarglory]

As an architecture nerd I do think Galar has to have some of the strongest, toughest buildings out of all the regions & I DO think Rose himself is an actual genius in the Architecture world for his ability to create beautiful and functional buildings for Dynamaxing.

[epersonae]

There's something about having hard bailed on the place where you grew up, like I moved away basically the first second I was able and rarely went back, but there's a fondness for some of it, and then something like this happens and

So much of what made me who I am as a person is in that place and now so much of it is gone forever, not in the regular turnover of things (I had a weird moment last year looking up something about the LA County Museum of Art and discovering that the buildings I knew had all been torn down) but just

All of it erased in less than a week

[virgil-upinthestars]

so, my dad went to notre dame, the college in indiana (*cue fight song*). but we're also québécois, so in my family, we pronounce la notre-dame de paris the french way, and notre dame (the college) with the most brutal east coast american accent you can think of. it was how we differentiated between the two. now, i might be québécois by heritage, but i speak french like a kid from butt-fuck cow country france (périgord vert my beloved), so my pronunciation is downright beautiful. french as fuck. québécois people think i was born in france. accent so strong i sometimes get a throat infection if i haven't spoken the language in a while.

well, i think i almost killed my french professor today when i was yapping about the notre dame football game (rip). i was in full bilingual mode, so my sentence was "perfect french perfect french perfect french NODER DAYME" and let me tell you that 40 y/o parisian almost had a stroke

[boasamishipper]

that post finishing-a-fic feeling is wild. like what do i do now

[girlboccaccio]

*a picture of a piece of art/architecture from Italy is posted*

me: no you know, behind the creation/edification of this one there is this totally absurd story - yeah that's actually happened for real it's written on records! - about the artists payed for it that they ended hating each other before the end of the commission, the filthy rich patrons which two months after were on the verge of bankruptcy and resolved it putting some distant relative in the chuch, two or more public fights, some stories about legal abuse and maybe also one homicide ahahahah.

[noche970]

It looks like I won’t sleep today… Architecture student moment I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just want time for my passion projects someone give me strength

[starswallowingsea]

im gonna try and finish vampires of el norte tomorrow since its my day off and i need to pick my next book so... not doing my botm books this time i'll pick those up again after i need to do something thats not a new release or i'll go insane

every bone a prayer

the architecture of loss

villa americana

belleweather

the lost girls

the ojibwa dance drum

[k00296574]

Sketch Sesh - Limerick City

Architecture and Cityscape

For our 2nd session of sketching observational studies we went our Limerick City, well went around King's Island and King John's.

Anyway here's the sketches from that journey.

Old Limerick City Courthouse

King John's Closeup on round tower and Katie Daly's

King's John by Thomond Bridge

The Wagon Wheel & and view of Arthur's Quay from the Wheel.

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Olena attended the Strategic Architects graduation ... and got a diploma 😁

[driedfynbos]

it was my second day of orientation for architecture school today. i just want to start lectures so i can get a better grasp of what’s to come. am excited and terrified!

i made a new friend today (i hope we get close).

[meateatersims]

visited my family in switzerland for the holidays so now i just want to remake every build in windenberg

[hannie-dul-set]

honestly thought i'd get stuck w writing home for the bitchless but i got a total of two (2) bathroom epiphanies today so the entire series is basically written in my head.

[ashmp3]

You need to understand that for one whole year in uni i had to draw plans of old serbian monasteries yes the ones from 13th century like they all look kinda similar but they aren’t so it was a pain. It was for an art history class. I wish to find pictures of my sketches to show you but it was diabolical. Gothic cathedrals were a breeze though