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... Arkhangelsk Vologda traditional wooden architecture Russian Orthodox churches architectural photography ...

... and the conditions under which it took place. The central question concerns the survivability of wooden architecture in a time of rapid social change. wooden architecture church architecture architectural preservation Russian geography documentary photography ...

... This chapter begins with the southern coast of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Province at the far northwestern corner of the Russian Federation. The village of Varzuga has one of the most distinctive surviving examples of Russian wooden church architecture, the Church of the Dormition (1674...

... of Karelia, and the southern coast of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Province. Arkhangelsk Vologda traditional wooden architecture Russian Orthodox churches architectural photography ...

... architecture, both secular and sacred. The high point is Kizhi Island, now an outdoor museum with its original two churches and many reassembled houses and churches from the region. Equally important are the villages of Varzuga and Kimzha, which are living examples of traditional life in a modern era...

... by sixteenth-century humanist philosophers and were influenced by both church architecture and local building materials and styles. In 1767, the Spanish Crown expelled the Jesuits from the missions and the Americas, as part of a consolidation of secular over religious power. Alcide d’Orbigny, the French...

..., Suzdal, and Rostov, ancient centers of Russian culture to the northeast of Moscow. The structures range from rural village houses to urban dwellings, as well as log churches. Novgorod wooden architecture Moscow region wooden architecture Kostroma Kazan Nizhny Novgorod ...

... The chapter discusses two Catholic churches in the Philippines, both built in the 1950s, to reflect on the production of religious and secular knowledge through the modernity of architecture. These churches were located in a sugar mill and a university, designed by local and foreign architects...

... at the end of the seventeenth century through the mid-eighteenth were modeled on the ideal cities proposed by sixteenth-century humanist philosophers and were influenced by both church architecture and local building materials and styles. In 1767, the Spanish Crown expelled the Jesuits from the missions...

... as the Russian North, contains the greatest examples of wooden architecture, both secular and sacred. The high point is Kizhi Island, now an outdoor museum with its original two churches and many reassembled houses and churches from the region. Equally important are the villages of Varzuga and Kimzha, which...

... of religious and traditional art and architecture in the Russian North. The route from Totma to Veliky Ustiug passes through the Vaga River Basin with its many surviving examples of wooden houses and churches. The Trinity-Gleden Monastery contains one of the most elaborate baroque icon screens in all Russia...

... surrounded by villages that contain some of the most interesting examples of traditional wooden architecture, including log houses, as well as churches and chapels. Some of these monuments are grouped around the villages of Liadiny and Oshevensk. Onega River Kargopol Liadiny Oshevensk White Sea ...

... in the 1940s. American art collage queer atomic energy Manhattan Project The chapter discusses two Catholic churches in the Philippines, both built in the 1950s, to reflect on the production of religious and secular knowledge through the modernity of architecture. These churches were located...

... examining the surviving magnificent churches endowed by the Stroganovs from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the chapter includes photographs of traditional architecture in villages located in forests near the small Uftiuga River. The route then crosses to the left bank of the Dvina...

... is the smaller Ferapontov-Nativity Monastery, with its miraculously preserved early sixteenth-century frescoes by one of medieval Russia’s greatest painters, Dionisy. The chapter concludes with Ustiuzhna on the Mologa River, a tributary of the Volga. This small town has a major landmark in the Church...

...—the spaces of premodern governance and industry but also of the palaces that line the Grand Canal, and churches and their belltowers. It considers the Venetians who have long inhabited the lagoon, somewhat marginalized in relationship to the architecture of Venice’s past but on whose shoulders the city’s...

...’ Barbari’s View , and urban plans to examine neighborhood development, patterns of convent foundation, and architectural and urban adjacencies, revealing how the built environment shaped and was shaped by relationships between convent communities. In visual arts, historiographical writings...

... debates and the lack of any overlap between state and civil society in Brazil at that point. The chapter shows that this debate was overcome by the institutional architecture of the Constitution of 1988 with the different designs of state and civil society collaboration. This chapter formulates...