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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"mausoleum"”.
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Book illumination and architectural decoration : the Mausoleum of Uljaytu in Sultaniyya
… those exhibited in the decorative designs of the Mausoleum of Uljaytu in Sultaniyya, Iran, ultimately engender a perception of architecture that alludes visually to an rendition of two dimensional space that is common to both painting and architecture.
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Mysteries of the Dead: A Taphonomic Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from the Peruvian Highland Sites of Marcahuamachuco and Cerro Amaru
… (2) Underneath the Castillo; and (3) Inside a Mausoleum. The human skeletal samples recovered from inside the walls of niched halls at Marcahuamachuco are from males and females of average height, ranging in age from juvenile to older adult. Taphonomically, the remains exhibit evidence of …
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As time passes: garden, monument, ruin
… are beginning to build large high density mausoleums to house the dead above ground. As I began to study the building type of a mausoleum, an issue perturbed me: As time passes, the loved ones of the deceased will pass on and no longer come to visit or care for the building. Most likely …
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Monument without qualities
… prior to what is actually constructed. The mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founding leader of Pakistan, provides an appropriate subject for such an approach. Jinnah was a larger than life figure, who embodied for most of the citizens of the new nation the ideals on which …
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Stephen Leacock: Humour And Humanity
… considers Mariposa in retrospect from the Mausoleum Club and suggests the need for a continual revival of the values of community life. "L'Envoi" also points forward to Arcadian Adventures, the book which centres on another Mausoleum Club in a city of the United States and focuses on the …
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Construction of history : Mohammad-Reza Shah revivalism, nationalism, and monumental architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979
… and interpret three specific monuments: the mausoleum of Reza Shah built in 1950, the Shahyad Aryamehr Monument built in 1971 on the occasion of 2500-year monarchy, and a prayer-house in Farah Park built in 1978. These monuments participated and contributed to the national narrative through …
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Development of construction techniques in the Mamluk domes of Cairo
… several stages of their construction from the Mausoleum of As- Sawabi, 1285 A.D. to the Funerary Complex of Amir Qurqumas, 1506 A.D. through bibliographic sources, photographic material and restoration reports collected in several libraries and archives where information on the topic is stored. …
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
… Two of the mausolea that I analyze, the Samanid mausoleum and the Gunbad-i Qabus, are well-known monuments which appear in virtually every survey of Islamic art, whereas most of the others are almost completely unknown.
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Nomination to the National Register of Historical Places: Warden's Residence, McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington
… Register of Historic Places’ sites of the Tacoma Mausoleum, Paradise Lodge at Mt. Rainier, and Stadium High School in Tacoma. As the creation of George Gove, the communicating architect for McNeil Island Penitentiary, the Warden’s residence possesses high artistic values and is a significant and …
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On the Creation of Gods: Lenin’s Image in Stalin’s Cult of Personality
… Lenin’s in the newly christened Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum on Red Square. This thesis argues that the visual imagery of Stalin’s cult used the image and persona of Vladimir Lenin as the founder of the Soviet state to legitimize Stalin’s rule over the Soviet Union, and later to aggrandize the image …
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Disciplining Religious Bodies, Forming Secular Bodies: Atatürk, Modern Power and Secular Affect
… La Turquie Kemaliste, Atatürk's Anıtkabir Mausoleum, bodies memorialized in Kemalist museums and early Republican newspapers. I go on to examine ethnographically how a contemporary Nekşibendi sufi community in Istanbul practice embodiment and view secular life. For them and many other of my …
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Architecture and statehood in late Byzantium: a comparative study of Epiros and Trebizond
… remodeling of the Blacherna church into a royal mausoleum, the first phase of the Pantanassa church and the Paregoretissa church—might have been constructed later than the mid-thirteenth century and not necessarily during his reign. Likewise, Theodora’s contribution in the remodeling of her …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
… Turn of the Screw,” remodels it again as the mausoleum at Weatherend in “The Beast in the Jungle,” then renovates it still further into Spencer Brydon’s jarring jolly corner. Likewise, Marco’s hastily constructed stone slab in front of Juno in “The Last of the Valerii,” represents a pagan …
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On Ornament: A Catholic Cemetery for Philadelphia
The practice of architecture exists because man has sought shelter from the forces of the world he finds himself. It is wonder of this same world that has caused him to shape his rooms from age to age. In every instance, he recreates the world within the world with the materials of that world. It …
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Positions
This companion of short essays, images and drawings are parts to a whole: a series of independent studies in search of architectural understandings. While this "project" has been underway for several years, until recently the thread of relevance between studies has been untethered. Now at the end, …