Mycenaean Religion at Menelaion I’ve been struggling lately with how to incorporate Mycenaean religion into my site. It’s commonly accepted…
Akrotiri: Considering Color As the course is wrapping up and the final project deadline looms closer, I find myself…
Karahoyuk floor plan In this blog post I will discuss the progress and design choices that I have made…
Floorplan Plans + Temple/Palace Spaces at Girsu This week we focused our discussion on palatial gardens and portable palaces. Although I found both…
Palatial Layouts: Agean in Practice The structure of Aegean architecture is of particular import for considering how any palace located in…
What is the evidence for the existence of Minoan gardens? I really enjoyed our class on the “breath of the wild” that gardens, parks, and flora/fauna…
Providence Performing Arts Center It was quite serendipitous that after the lecture on festival spaces on April 10, I then…
Art During the Amarna Period Art during the Amarna period broke from traditional Ancient Egyptian architecture. Amarnan art “is often described…
Political Gardens While reading Neo-Assyrian Gardens: A Spectrum of Artificiality, Sacrality, and Accessibility by Anastasia Amrhein, I realized…
Visibility Analysis of Wall Frescoes Many Theran frescoes date back to the Middle Cycladic period between the seismic destruction and volcanic…
The Great Palace In order to gain inspiration for the final project, I decided to research relevant and existing…
The Fluidity of Space When we visited the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul last week, something that struck me…
Well, We Always Need Water Water is a pivotal resource for any settlement, but in Egypt’s barren, desert landscape, the Nile…
Atmosphere of My Palace Over the last month or so my blog post has reflected my progress in designing a…
Northern Levant Art and Artifacts For my last blog post before the project, I would like to focus on comparing art…
Expanding on the Courtyard The uncertainty in what the actual palace at Byblos might have looked like and the very…
Sights, Sounds and Architecture in Las Vegas Last week, I went on a short trip to Las Vegas, NV with a group of…
Control In Modern Palaces: The Bellagio As our course on palaces comes to a close, I am pondering the fact that we…
Pool/Well at Amarna After reviewing some features of tel-el Amarna, I gathered several key aspects that I decided to…
Nuragic Antemural Walls One of the most interesting nuragic features that I am representing through my project is an…
The Many Functions of Entrances As I’ve been designing my Meroitic palace, I’ve been thinking a lot about entrances, as Meroitic…
Cultural Relativism and Defining Palaces In relation to what we have read this week, I find myself yet again at the…
Letting nature influence built space Structures on Earth are rarely independent of their natural surroundings. In my head, at least, the…
Experiential Aspects of an Amarna Palace When creating the design, in particular the floor plan, of my palace for my final project,…
What types of art might we find at Ebla Palace E? For my final project, I’m working on reconstructing Ebla Palace E, the royal palace located on…
A Home and a Display In the midst of constructing my elite residence, I am finally getting the chance to employ…
The Palatial Gardens of the Nile: From Amarna to Meroe In light of our class discussions this week, as well as the fact that Marc Maillot…
