I. The Palace

The Palace Project

This paper seeks definitions aiding design methodologies for evolving virtual morphologies, by the examination of one such morphology in analogue architecture: The Topkapı Palace. 1 Background The interest that instigated this study lies in a project developed earlier this year, entitled “The Bridge Project” [01], a virtual 3D structure of free associative content derived from the internet, one...

The hostel of the Invalides by Thomas Povey (1682) (Lambeth Palace Library MS.745). I.

AMONG the fields of enquiry to which the minds ofmen turned in Restoration England, that of hospital administration was not to be the least important in its effects. The impetus towards studies of this sort was produced in part by the foundation in Paris by Louis XIV of the Hotel des Invalides in 1674. Even before the useful effects of the great hospital had been evaluated, Charles II had writt...

The Mannerist Arneri Palace in Korcula

Depictions of Fruit in the Tiles of Golestān Palace

Golestān Palace is the remnant of the historic citadel of Tehran, which dates back to the Safavid period, and the Zandiyeh and Fatḥ-Ali Shah Qajar. But because of extensive repairs by Nasser al-Din Shah in 1905, most of the buildings in this complex are regarded to be from the Nasseri era. Golestān Palace was the residence of the Qajar kings and the country’s administrative heart whose architec...

The ` ` Palace of Discovery ' ' at the Paris Exposition of 1937