#history of architecture

[jareckiworld]

Achille-Louis Martinet (1806-1877)— Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, London [drawing and hand coloured lithograph, ca. 1862]

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

24.09.2024 City of London

First visit to the Barbican! (Being there after all those years was amazing. Thank you, Nicola!)

[anordinaryarchitect]

22/06/24 | 3/51 Productive Day

[heavyanddissolved]

Proposal for a Neoclassical library, by Axel Nyström (Swedish, 1793–1868)

[er-cryptid]

Sir Christopher Wren

-- born in 1632

-- Oxford astronomy professor

-- the Great Fire of London struck in 1666

-- Wren has designed his first building four years earlier

-- named King's Surveyor of Works by Charles II in 1669

-- involved in rebuilding more than 50 London churches

-- rebuilding included Saint Paul's Cathedral

-- inscription near his tomb in Saint Paul's Cathedral says "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you."

-- died in 1723

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[maureen2musings]

The Bridge House, Perthshire

@castlesofscotland

[abandonedography]

This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras

First floor: columns from Eastern Roman (Byzantine) era.

Second floor: archs from "again" Eastern Roman era.

Third floor: stonewalls from Ottoman Empire era.

Fourth floor: mud bricks from the first years of the Republic of Turkey.

[gluten-free-lap-dances]

Rome on film 10.2024

Canon AE-1 / Kodak Gold 200

[2seeitall]

Acropolis, Athens (Greece)

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Medina Azahara, 2023

Jason Kummerfeldt for Frames from Andalucía

[anordinaryarchitect]

23.06.24 | 4/51 Productive Day

This Sunday was a day of pleasure outdoors 🧘‍♀️ But the penalty for rest in the morning was to prepare a project for 6 hours at night 🙇🏻‍♀️

[heavyanddissolved]

Proposal for a Neclassical library, by Carl Fredrik Sundvall (Swedish, 1754-1831)

[rosieandthemoon]

[toyastales]

The Art Deco peacock doors, Chicago 1925