11. And as a kind of contrapunct to the pagoda, the cave dwellings and underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey
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12. One of the oldest types of houses still widely used all over the planet—and a frequent setting in my intimate spatial reveries—is the adaptive stilt architecture.
Here's the abandoned village of Ukivok on King Island in the Bering Sea, west of Alaska (photos 1892 and 1978)
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13. Nōka [農家], a traditional wooden farmhouse in Japan, as captured by the great woodblock printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1946)
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14. The fortified granary, Ksar Ouled Soltane, located in the district of Tataouine, southern Tunisia.
Ksar means 'granary' and the name Tataouine, well... you know what I mean
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17. The Roofs of Ghadames—an oasis Berber town in the Nalut District of the Tripolitania region in northwestern Libya—also known as 'the pearl of the desert'
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18. The traditional Sámi home called 'gamme'
[Photographs by Ellisif Rannveig Wessel, Bente Haarstad and Fredrik Jenssen]
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And the characteristic Sámi 'njalla', food storage huts raised from the ground to avoid the intrusion of nosy animals such as wolverines and bears
[reddit.com/r/interestinga; sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njalla#/m; Daniel von Hogguér, 'Reise nach Lappland und dem nördlichen Schweden', 1841]
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19. Indian stepwells, also known regionally as 'vav', 'baori', 'baoli', and 'bawadi', are structures that, in the first place, helped harvest water but were also used as subterranean temples and pleasure retreats
[Photographs by Edward Burtynsky and Victoria Lautman]
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20. The fractal geometry of Indian temples: Virupaksha Temple, Dilwara Temples, Kandariya temple and Sri Meenakshi Amman Temple dataisnature.com/?p=2138
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21. The ancient wooden synagogues in Poland
Here is the Zabłudów synagogue as captured in 1895 by art collector and patron Mathias Bersohn for his ethnographic work on wooden synagogues in Poland ('Some Remarks on Ancient Wooden Synagogues in Poland', 1900)
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22. Wooden hermitage in the rocks, Kalampaka (Καλαμπάκα), Greece.
[Photograph by Will Clarke]
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23. Straw architecture in Diourbel, Senegal
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24. The lake village of Ganvié, Benin, Africa, as photographed by Massimo Rumi
massimorumi.com/ganvie-the-ven
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I imagine walking towards the Kandariya temple from the treeline. The first thing you see if the fractal towers. The next thing you see if the segmented pillars and walls. Only as you draw closer do the hundreds of statues become visible.
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Not fractal
I take your point, but fractals are infinitely self-similar, iterated and appear the same at each scale. These are finite and only repeated. Ie if you were to zoom in you would see a different design
Fascinating how the craftsmen were able to operate to accurately
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