tag > Architecture
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Longmen Grottoes is located in Luoyang, Henan Province. Emperor Xiaowendi of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386 - 534) originally directed the construction in 493 when he moved capital to Luoyang. The grottoes were continuously built until the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127).
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Finding Meaning in The Nature of Order - A cognitive-scientific perspective on Christopher Alexander.
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La Plata is a planned city in Argentina, created upon the urban planning paradigm of the late 19th century and designed in a very strict grid-pattern form. Its many avenues and diagonals result in a quite satisfying geometric symmetry when seen from above.
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爽やかな木漏れ日を感じれる門 (A gate where you can feel the refreshing sunlight filtering through the trees)
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Is there really a whispering gallery at the Great Ballcourt at Chichen Itza, Mexico?
A "whispering gallery" (WG) at the Great Ballcourt (GBC) was first reported during its excavation in the 1920s by American archaeologist Silvanus Morley (1883-1948), Director of the Carnegie Institution's Chichen Itza project. In his 1925 National Geographic article Morley wrote: "Standing in this temple one can speak in a low voice & be heard distinctly at the other end of the court, 500 ft away." Around 2000-2001, queries on AZTLAN, a semi-official Mesoamerican archaeology Internet discussion group, found little or no belief in a WG by mesoamericanists. Some opined that any WG would surely be a design accident or an artifact of ballcourt ageing or reconstruction. They stiffened at the suggestion that the ancient Maya might have possessed the requisite knowledge for intentional design. Was Morley mistaken? Or are modern mesoamericanists missing something? During a tour of Chichen Itza following the fall 2002 joint acoustical meeting in Cancun, Mexico, the author and two of his colleagues convincingly demonstrated a GBC WG to about 100 acousticians and their companions. This paper describes WG phenomena observed at the Great Ballcourt and suggests physical models to explain them. He also presents evidence for intentional design.
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A cathedral and a modern microcircuit with an emitter antenna
To the right is Chartres Cathedral built in 1220. 800 years later in 2020 we have Schumann Resonators which are little boxes you plug into the wall that produce electromagnetic radiation tuned to 7.83 Hz. This is the frequency that the earth/atmosphere system “rings” at when the Earth is struck by lightning. It is also a common frequency your brain “ticks” at. If we are out of sync with Earth's Frequency (Schumann Resonance) we begin to exhibit signs of discomfort that can range from anxiety, insomnia, illness, suppressed immune etc…
Eternal patterns echoing across time and space
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'Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Office aspirations: The ruins of a power plant that looks like a forgotten temple.
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Illustrative comparison between Moorish and Christian towns in medievel Spain.
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"100 3D-printed homes in Wolf Ranch community will range from 1,574 to 2,112 square feet and feature high-end fixtures and rooftop solar panels. Prices will start in the mid USD 400,000s. The process currently requires three human operators to build one house — wall systems including plumbing and wiring — in two weeks."
