Author Archive: Diploma14

San Vitale, Ravenna

San Vitale, Ravenna

  This church was consecrated in 545 and is one of the best examples of Byzantine architecture in Italy. The similarities with Saint Sergius and Bacchus caused the speculation that they might share the same author.

 

Saint Sergius and Bacchus, Istanbul

Saint Sergius and Bacchus, Istanbul

  Known today as the ‘Little Saint Sophia Mosque’ ( Küçük Aya Sofya Camii), the Byzantine church of Saint Sergius and Bacchus dates to the beginning of Justinian’s reign in 527 AD. Popular belief attributes it to...

 

Giorgio Agamben: What is a Paradigm

Giorgio Agamben: What is a Paradigm

Find the transcript of Agamben’s lecture on the concept of paradigm at http://ppw.kuleuven.be/ecs/les/bestanden/Tekstbestanden/Agamben%20-%20What%20is%20a%20paradigm%202002.pdf Agamben’s lecture touches on many methodological issues...

 

Honours Presentations

Honours Presentations

The four students who graduated with honours in June 2012 will present today, Wednesday 19 September, at 6 pm. Don’t miss Dip 14′s Sam Nelson, if you haven’t had a chance to hear him talk about his project.

 

Mircea Eliade: The Sacred and the Profane

Mircea Eliade: The Sacred and the Profane

Eliade is perhaps the most influential historian of religion of the XX century. His main contribution is the definition of the concept of the sacred as category. Find his book The Sacred and the Profane in pdf format at: https://www.dmt-nexus.me/doc/The%20Sacred%20And%20The%20Profane.pdf

 

The Politics of Sacred Space / Diploma14 2012-13

The Politics of Sacred Space / Diploma14 2012-13

After decades of neglect within the field of architecture and urbanism we want to re-open the issue of sacred space. In architecture, ‘sacredness’ is either ignored as an irrational sphere, or it is reduced to stereotypes of spirituality...