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- BONDS. // New Yorker;12/17/90, Vol. 66 Issue 44, p20
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The article explains the figurative/narrative windows trend for places of worship. This trend can be attributed to the church's self identity and mission. Church buildings became more than functional very early on in the church's history. For instance, narratives that used figures with a certain...
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- Making a Difference. Mogensen, Lone // Nexus Network Journal: Architecture & Mathematics;Jul2011, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p431
In attempting to identify how the ground plans of medieval churches were initially staked out, it has been noted that the width of a given element (an aisle or a pier) equals the difference between two given distances in a square appearing in that same church; in a church plan constructed on a...
