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Final Post

For my final project I decided to build a 4th palace at Amarna. Since Amarna already had 3…

A Palace at Akrotiri

For my final project I designed my vision of a bronze age palace at Akrotiri. I…

Zakros Reimagined

For my Palace based on Zakros, I took the stance that it was a sort of…

A Semester in Reflection

This semester was a ton of fun and I learned a ton, building on some of…

Meroitic Palace at Jebel Barkal

For my final project, I designed a Meroitic palace at Jebel Barkal. Something that I found…

A Proposed Elite Residence at the “Pompei of the Aegean”

When I learned about the site of Akrotiri on the ancient island of Thera, now modern…

Reflection on Karahöyük

Looking back on it, I’m glad I chose to take on the task of recreating Karahöyük.…

Presenting an Urban Palace at Akrotiri

After several weeks of research and design, I’d like to present my palace at Akrotiri. My…

Fit for a Queen: Palace at Wad Ban Naga

For my final project, I designed a Meroitic palace. I was initially intrigued by Meroitic palaces…

Modeling My Palace

I really enjoyed this class over the past semester, it was fascinating to engage with architecture,…

Final Thoughts-Akrotiri

Over the course of the semester, I have learned much about the historical, sensory, and cultural…

Assembling the Aleppo Palace: A Last Look

This final project taught me a lot about the balance between creativity and referenced reconstruction. When…

Final Blog Post

I really enjoyed this semester as a whole, and I think that the final project was…

Final Project: Tell el-Amarna

For my final project I recreated a palace at Tell el-Amarna. The palace is meant to…

Palatial Tumuli and the Kerma Culture

The reconstruction of the palace at Sai involved the combination of several Kerman architectural and palatial…

Final Project Reflection

For my final project, I designed a basalt Late Bronze Age Class III nuraghe. It is…

Palace of Girsu: Semester + Palace Project Reflections

I had an awesome semester learning about palaces and looking at palatial architecture from new and…

Final Project: Tell-el Amarna

I started the project with the idea of designing a palace in the city of Tell-el…

Reflections on the Palace at Meroe

Given my interest in the historical development of the African continent – an interest that I…

Desert Palace at Amarna

For my final project, I decided to create a brand new palace located in Amarna. I…

The South Palace of Amarna

Figure1: X marks the location of the Southern Palace. For my final project, I decided to…

Bringing it All Together: My Proposed Palace at the Site of Byblos

Earlier this semester, when presented with a list of options for the final project, I almost…

An Elite Residence at Tell el-Amarna

Below is my finished plan of an elite residence of Tell el-Amarna: Building everything certainly was…

The East Palace

For my final project, I created a garden palace in the Neo-Assyrian city of Nimrud. The…

Mycenaean Palace Culture

One of the traps I think comes up in studying the Mycenaeans is trying to fit…

Reconstruction of Ebla Palace E

For my final project, I created a reconstruction of Ebla Palace E, which dates to the…

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…

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