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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Mapping Greek Villages: Neda

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Monday, May 26, 2014. Mapping Greek Villages: Neda. The process follows producing three different site-plans. The final pass involves zooming further into Google and extracting finer information about the buildings, including how they relate to one another, roof types, etc. Labels: Deserted Greek Villages. Dear Kostis: Drink a glass of Retsina for me! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Mystical K

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Friday, November 21, 2014. William Penn and Benjamin Franklin have dominated Pennsylvania's historical airwaves. Their no-nonsense Protestant ethic served well the ideology of the nation as it developed into a capitalist empire. It is particularly interesting how the majority of Philadelphia Quakers became Episcopalians in the 19th century, suggesting that Quaker spirituality became increasingly incompatible with the industrial state and...

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Craft: High/Low-Brow Conspiracy

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Wednesday, August 06, 2014. Bill Caraher has proposed a new blog series on Archaeology and Craft. But I'm not ready yet. What I'd like to note instead is this weekend's conversation in the New York Times. A. O. Scott's " The Squeeze on the Middlebrow. Relates class stratification to cultural taste. Inspired by Thomas Piketty's " Capital in the 21st Century. 1949) and elaborated on by Dwight Macdonald in " Masscult and Midcult. The New Archaeolog...

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Deserted Greek Villages: Hackman Research Fellowship Report

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Sunday, November 16, 2014. Deserted Greek Villages: Hackman Research Fellowship Report. For the remainder of the report, I will describe the specific activities that we carried out in each of the six sites. 1 Athenian Agora Excavations. 2 The Mount Lykaion Project and the Parrhasian Cultural Heritage Park. 3 The Western Argolid Project. 4 Ancient Corinth Excavations. 5 The Lidoriki Project. I hope this is of some help to you. There was another v...

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: O Young Building, Grand Forks ND

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Monday, August 03, 2015. O Young Building, Grand Forks ND. The Young store had an iron post on its other back corner, but it has been replaced with a newer steel column. A staircase leading to the basement on Demers Street features another iron element, a beautiful post for the railing, most likely manufactured by the same foundry (below):. North Dakota Man Camps. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Egon Schiele Portraits - Neue Galerie

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Egon Schiele Portraits - Neue Galerie. At Neue Galerie, New York. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Piano Poetry Pantelis Politics music, literature, friends, resistance. If you can't be witty, then at least be bombastic. Immigrations–Ethnicities–Racial Situations. The Edge of the Village. Η Αφρική με Οποιοδήποτε Άλλο Όνομα. School's not out (yet).

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Fleshing Out the Byzantine House

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Fleshing Out the Byzantine House. Here is a topic that I have been thinking about and hope to build up into a conference paper or even an article. Fleshing Out the Byzantine House. The mutable nature of domestic architecture has guaranteed the disappearance of most houses from the extant material record visible to the architectural historian. Thanks to commemorative and ritual functions, on the other hand, churches...

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Deserted Greek Villages

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Friday, August 08, 2014. Paul Oliver, a foundational figures in the study of vernacular architecture globally, wrote in 1974, " the shelter of Greece has claimed more attention than that of any other country. In 1964, Bernard Rudofsky's exhibition " Architecture Without Architects. And they would say "northern Epirots," the euphemism for new emigrating Albanians. The stone-masonry traditions of continental Greece have deep roots in Epirus, w...

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Jesse Vital's Lancaster Mural

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Jesse Vital's Lancaster Mural. The story was amazing enough that I had to talk to Jesse, who generously granted me a telephone interview on May 24, 2014. What follows is the transcription of that conversation. I can see from your website that you’re pretty amazing realistic classical representation. Do you know if it’s still up? Yeah I don’t know how bright the original was but it looks very very clear. Oh totally. ...

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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Islamic Art and Pennsylvania

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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Islamic Art and Pennsylvania. March, 1895) explains this fascinating transmission of Islamic notions in the New World. Should have retained through nearly three and a half centuries, and that the plant should be known to the Pennsylvania Germans to-day as the Dullaban. The passage from 1895 is quoted in Edwin Atlee Barber, Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania German Potters. Philadelphia, 2003), pp. 82-83. Tulip War...Immig...