ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments

Paper · Semantic Scholar

A number of unusual cross-shaped buildings exist in Central Asia. A significant number of these monuments is concentrated in the middle reaches of the Syr Darya River, within the territory of the present-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In historical scholarship, this region is traditionally identified with the ancient state of Kangju (Kang, Kangha). Their form is atypical of the architectural tradition of the region …

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church building, architectural landmark in Russua

Book · DOAB

This volume contains a collection of short essays on Luigi Vanvitelli’s contribution to Neapolitan architecture in the second half of the 18th century; the authors are all scholars – researchers, doctoral and post-doctoral students – who trained at the Dipartimento di Architettura of the Università di Napoli Federico II. The conclusion of the two hundred and fifty year anniversary of Luigi Vanvitelli’s death practic…

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