Understanding Architecture A Book by Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa www.phaidon.com We have turned our faces towards the futureFragments of timeA timeless spaceTheatre Epidaurus, Greece, 330 BCThe secret life of sculpture+17 More Fragments of time architecturehistorycities
Each ruler commissioned his own garden The Mughuls of India developed a tradition where each ruler commissioned his own garden. Then, "At the owner's death the pavilion, generally placed in the center of the site, became the mausoleum, and the whole complex passed into the care of holy men." Lisa Heschong, Thermal Delight in Architecture Poems of an Indian summerThe Abode of Fancy deathgardens