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... feet and 35 feet high , has crude open porches on the sides of a square supporting a three - terraced pyra- midal sikhara , perhaps a model of stories added to a Buddhist vihara to care for increases in the monastic population . On top ...
... feet and 35 feet high , has crude open porches on the sides of a square supporting a three - terraced pyra- midal sikhara , perhaps a model of stories added to a Buddhist vihara to care for increases in the monastic population . On top ...
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... feet on a side and 450 feet high . A typical Mexican pyramid , such as El Castillo at Chichen Itzá , is 185 feet square , and its nine layers achieve a height of 80 feet with the crowning temple adding another 20 feet . The largest of ...
... feet on a side and 450 feet high . A typical Mexican pyramid , such as El Castillo at Chichen Itzá , is 185 feet square , and its nine layers achieve a height of 80 feet with the crowning temple adding another 20 feet . The largest of ...
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... feet . Similar care has to be exercised about the Acropolis of Mycenae and its gates . Obviously there were ... feet wide , climbs 48 feet , passes by heavy walls , so that the gate is at the end of a deep court . The lintel , covering a ...
... feet . Similar care has to be exercised about the Acropolis of Mycenae and its gates . Obviously there were ... feet wide , climbs 48 feet , passes by heavy walls , so that the gate is at the end of a deep court . The lintel , covering a ...
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Chapter Three ARCHITECTURAL TRAVEL WITH PARTICULAR | 35 |
Chapter Six THE ARCHITECTURE OF STONE | 151 |
English Features | 417 |
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That ... Jake Morrissey,J. P. Morrissey No preview available - 2005 |