Berlin, Germany 1992-1999 CE Foster and Partners The transparent cupola atop the Plenary Chamber takes its cue from the original structure (1894), housing a reborn curia imperialis: a Reichstag. The Old Reichstag burned in 1934 and the assembly was subsumed into the Third Reich. Following the f...
Chichén-Itzá, Mexico Post-Classic c. 1200 CE The Toltec-Maya pyramidal temple is a living calendar with four stairways, each with 91 steps (364) and a threshold to the upper sanctuary, making 365 steps: one for each day of the year. There is a writhing, shadowy serpent Equinox predictor, a pair ...
Williamsburg, VA 1619 (at Jamestown) to 1769 The Capitol, or the House of Burgesses, adopted English Common Law as the Virginia Company of London organized their new colony in Jamestown. By 1624, the charter was lost and replaced as a Royal Colony. Greatly limited in establishing a course of ac...
We offer unique teaching books. Books about perspective. Books about color media and markers. Coloring books to illustrate great buildings. Books cataloguing the built environment around us. For teaching facilities, we offer visual media and large-format teaching books and even wall posters. soon we will introduce streaming video techniques, which will then make their way to your iPod via video podcasts.
Membership will provide you with electronic access to our works, PDF downloads on diverse topics ranging from three-point perspective to Andrea Palladio. Travel audio Podcasts will soon be available for unique sites, first in Italy and then expanding across the globe.
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Come explore “il sconosciuto,” the un-discovered before your eyes as we journey from Italy to Chicago, New York to France and consider the world a place to share.
Smartbooks share light-hearted ways to grasp perspective and hand media control, giving you tools to reach the next stage of dream making
