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Louis Vignes, Triumphal Arch with Great Colonnade and the Temple of Bel Complex, Palmyra, Syria, 1864 (via polychroniadis)
We have no place for rituals in either our daily lives or the buildings that house them. In the past, we built separate spaces for rituals: churches, grand bank buildings or eloquent city halls, monuments to the fallen… The easy answer would be to throw a classicist cloak over everything, squirreling daily life away into the poché while marking and framing important events with columns and colonnades. The opposite of the (rather expensive) traditionalist strategy would be to abstract everything, retreating into complete fluidity, limbo, and loss of meaning. We need something in-between.
Odilon Redon, Mystical Conversation, 1896
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Alexander Rea, Ramalingeshvara Temple, Tadipatri, India, c. 1870 (via transoptic)
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Amédée Forestier vs. George W. T. Omond, Outer Court of the Episcopal Palace, Liège, Belgium, c. 1920 (via oldbooks)