Clerestory and Intervisibility in Minoan Architecture During our visit to the Providence Public Library, the architectural tour guide spoke in depth about…
A constructed Palace This week’s excursion was not only a fascination look into the nature of modern construction practices,…
History and Culture of Amarna As I continue my exploration into the ancient city of Amarna, I wanted to take this…
Accessibility in West House In order to begin the design process, this week I learned about the layout of a…
Ceilings, Do You Really Need Them? One of the major things that stood out to me during the hardhat tour of the…
Blog Post 7: Providence Public Library This week, our excursion to the Providence Public Library reminded me in many ways of Zakros,…
Girsu and Eshnunna One of my primary concerns with designing my palace has been the lack of structural starting…
Amarna’s North Palace For this blog post I decided to further investigate the North Palace in Amarna to get…
Patterns in Anatolian Palaces We don’t know much about art in Anatolian palaces. One thing we have no shortage of…
Signaling Purpose Through Visibility This week has inspired me to take a closer look at the ways in which visibility…
Palatial-ness of the Providence Public Library At first I was surprised when I heard that the class would be touring the Providence…
Palace Economy and the Role of Temples in Ebla For my blog post this week, I wanted to dig deeper into social, economic, and political…
Great Aten Temple One of the most notable aspects of the Amarna period was the dramatic change in Egypt’s…
Storage in Meroitic Palaces and Beyond Wad Ben Naga’s location on the east bank of the Nile made it one of the…
The transformation of buildings with time I was very excited for our visit to the Providence Public Library this week, and greatly…
First impressions and Entryways I think the Providence Public Library (PPL) had to be one of the prettiest buildings I…
Indicators In David Kertai’s paper, The Architecture of Connectivity, different architectural and decorative aspects Ashurbanipal II’s Northwest…
The Megaron at Menelaion If dated to around the 14th century, LH IIIA2, the hypothetical palace at Menelaion would coincide…
The Inhabitants of Tell-el Amarna A topic that I had mentioned in my last blog post concerning the archeology of the…
The Palace of the People As I was touring the Providence Public Library yesterday, one of the things that struck me…
Construction Resources This week’s excursion to the Providence Public Library prompted me to think more carefully about the…
All About the Money: Financing Palatial Architecture During yesterday’s visit to the Providence Public Library, Tonia Mason (Director of Marketing and Communications) and…
It’s All in the Foundation: Byblos Our trip to the Providence Public Library, and especially the hard hat tour, had me realize…
Comparisons of Northern Levantine Palaces: Temples, Entrances, and Staircases I will focus my post this week on extrapolating and further exploring the sources of information…
What Kerma implies for the remains of Sai In order to attempt a reconstruction of the site at Sai, it is important to…
Talatat Architecture in Armana The city of Armana made use of a very unique building style that was not seen…
