Continuity & Change at Bratislava Castle This week I had a five-hour stopover in Bratislava, Slovakia on my way from Budapest, Hungary…
Sex and Gender (or Lack Thereof) in Indus Figurines I thoroughly enjoyed Jennifer Bates’ Wednesday lecture on palaces in the Indus, mainly because of how…
Defining a Palace in the Indus Does our understanding of a palace need to be reevaluated to a case by case basis?…
Mayan Architecture This week in class we had a series of guest lecturers on cultures that were outside…
Lippitt and Amarna When visiting the Lippitt House, one thing that caught my attention was the interior and exterior…
What Makes a Palace? During this week, the guest lectures have illustrated the wide variety in what may be considered…
Socio-Political Atmosphere at Mohenjo-Daro In the past few weeks we have focused on royal and palatial structures that display components…
Preserving Palaces One of the interesting takeaways for me from Monday’s lecture on Crusader castles in Syria was…
Castle Graph Theory When I, a math and computer science concentrator decided to check out a class in the…
Material Culture in Akrotiri, Thera In preparation for my final project, much of my reading this week was focused on the…
Palace “Members, Guests, and Trespassers” When reading Mongelluzzo’s piece on the experiential elements of Maya palaces, I was intrigued by the…
Palaces and Power These guest lectures have provided a great deal of valuable insight into not just types of…
Bias in interpretation of data I really enjoyed the discussion of the Indus in class on Wednesday. One of the…
Sound-Structure Interaction to Power Dynamics The cut out effect, as described by Mongelluzzo, is the effect in which the sounds created…
Heterarchy and Collective Action in Indus Civilization I was interested in Adam Green’s article which suggested that the specific type of buildings found…
Social influences on palace architecture I really enjoyed the talk we had in class this Monday. I had always loved castles…
Technological Feats at Machu Picchu Though we did not go on a field trip this week, I was inspired by our…
Analysis of Roman Castles This past week’s lecture by Eva on Crusader Castles in the Levant was quite interesting. She…
Petra at its Peak I am fortunate enough to have taken an excursion to Petra, Jordan this week with my…
Castles and Nuraghi On Monday, Eva Mol discussed the difference between castles and palaces, explaining that a castle is…
“Religious” vs. “Royal” Spaces within Maya and Mesopotamian Palaces In light of my plans for the final project, I’ve been doing a lot of research…
Accessibility and Art: From Assyria to the Maya Throughout Josh Schnell’s Friday lecture on the history and architecture of the ancient Maya, I found…
The Alienation of Palaces As Mr. Schnell was talking about access patterns in Mayan palaces, he made an interesting comment…
The Twin River Palace This week, since we didn’t visit any sites, I wanted to write about a “palace” about…
Sound Grab One thing that stood out to me during Friday’s guest lecture and in Mongelluzzo’s chapter, Ancient…
Overloading the Senses with Experiential Architecture At the Lippet house, mirrors seemed to be everywhere. Giant mirrors featured in multiple rooms that…
Mohenjo-Daro: A City Ahead of Its Time Mohenjo-Daro is one of the largest yet oldest major cities in the Indus Valley region. However,…
The Monumental Entrance For my final project, I have chosen to design my own Meroitic Palace at Jebel Barkal.…
Conveying the dynamics of palaces We’ve discussed many aspects of the dynamics of ancient palaces in class, whether it be mapping…
