The Weight of Quiet: Finding the Architecture of Silence The click of a heel on damp cobblestone usually signals the presence of a person, but in the early hours of a Venetian winter, it serves only t...
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Öjen Dölakrua) (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) is one of France’s most important Romantic painters. His father is the statesman Charles Delacroix. Howev...
Welcome back to yet another instalment of Art 101 – this time focusing on Romanesque Art! Background to the Romanesque period The Romanesque era covers the period from around 1000 AD to t...
Time for a relaxing trip! Now that all the countries are easing travel restrictions, we all have found ourselves thinking of where to go for our first trip after the pandemic. Or at least, while it is...
Notre-Dame de la Garde is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, France. Its official name means “Our Lady of the Guard”, but locals know it as la Bonne Mère (“the Good Mother”) because they regard the bui...
Civita is a suburb of the comune of Bagnoregio, in the Province of Viterbo. The area this town is in, is on the border between Tuscany and Lazio, la Tuscia. Civita di Bagnoregio is close to Lake Bolse...
The Church of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio, also known as La Martorana, is a church located in Palermo, Sicily. History The church was founded around 1143, and was originally named after George of Ant...
Bernini and the “Bel Composto” How Gian Lorenzo Bernini created a marriage of art, light and architecture in his works Bernini and his background Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – ...
Landshut is considered a secondary destination. When you are in Munich, the welcoming and pulsating core in Bavaria, it is difficult to divert attention from this attractive city, full of ideas to pas...
Famous Church Of Sicily? The Church of San Bartolomeo is located in Ragusa, Sicily. Between two hills, the Church and the natural environment surrounding it create an incredible landscape and unseen b...
Territory dominated by the Dolomites is full of surprises, adventures. There are marvellous places that are hidden or little known, surrounded by breathtaking scenery (not by chance, the Dolomites wer...
Great writers are often remembered for their literary works, which represent the deepest testimony of their way to look at the world. Important literary men’s words constitute a precious cultural and ...
Liko Noe: Zero Energy Building Zero Energy Building is a building that needs very low amount of energy for heating, cooling, lighting and other consumption and this need is completely supplied from re...
Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is one of the great examples of innovative sustainable housing. It is located in the Sutton, London as the first...
What are NFT Royalties? Osinachi, Africa’s Foremost CryptoArtist, described NFT Royalties as what the creator gets in the secondary market after making the first sale. By this, he implie...
Catacombs of Paris Under the magnificent view of Paris, there is another world that is as dark as it’s glorious. The Catacombs of Paris, which contains bones of more than 6 million bodies, was u...
Every few years, when the situation in Israel gets tense, Google searches for terms “Jerusalem” and “Israel” spikes. Especially as of this week, marked by forced evictions from East Jerusalem and cele...
In this strange period we live in, it has become a difficult task to go to the supermarket or to take a walk at the seaside, although it is only a few kilometers away. As a coping mechanism, I have, l...
King Ludwig II of Bayern and his enchanted castles King Ludwig II of Bayern is one of the most ingenious and controversial rulers of our time and has become historically famous for his architectural p...
Introduction Compared to the general Italian Renaissance, Venetian Renaissance has quite different features from other city-states in Italy. This is because of the topographic aspects that isolate the...
If you are lucky enough to be in Catalonia on the 23rd of April, you will experience one of the most beautiful and unique celebrations of this region, On that day, every year, Catalans celebrate ̶...
The word Mesopotamia, which originates from Ancient Greek, means “the land between two rivers”, which imagines today’s Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The first Mesepotamian civilizatio...
Where to travel when the pandemic is over? We have hope that eventually we will return to the good old days. Most of all, we missed traveling, walking comfortably from street to street. So I to...
The beautiful city of Barcelona is known, among many other things, for its amazing modernist buildings. During the late XIX century and the begining of the XX, the Art Nouveau style spread through Eur...
Water scarcity Globally, reductions in precipitation and rising air temperatures are increasing vulnerabilities in both the agricultural and energy sectors. Water scarcity concerns are shaping convers...
When visiting Paris, many know to aim for the world-famous Lourve museum for their art education. But hidden in the City of Lights, on the banks of the Seine, lives another museum well worth your time...
Neoclassical Effect on Architecture Simple and symmetrical forms, geometrical pattern, the splendor of scale, minimum decoration… How did the elaborateness in ornaments, attentiveness to detail, and a...
In my first article ‘Mexico 101‘ I talked about some of the most loved traditional Mexican dishes, but that’s definitely not the only beautiful thing about this country. Another amaz...
Buenos Aires In the article ¨Buenos Aires. Part I¨ we were able to explore some of the most beautiful and iconic places in this amazing city in Latin America. In this article, we are going to know fi...
FROM THE ABSEBCE OF MATTER TO THE METAPHYSICAL RUIN Matter is essential to architecture, be it palpable or not. Our traditional understanding of what a building is, and its purposes, is ...