This past week we learned to map and tag buildings, places, and urban areas of Atlanta with Megan Slemons at ECDS.
On Thursday, we discussed basic concepts, contradictions, and revisions of Iberian architecture. We considered issues of style, of civilizations, of history / prehistory, and periodization.
We also considered issues of conflict, functionality of a building and dwelling of its inhabitants, and the bearing of these issues on matters of memory, as in the great Mosque – Cathedral of Córdoba, in the South of Spain. The mosque segment includes all the domes, porticos, and orange orchard, while the cathedral segment is the large, taller part in the middle, and the old minarte, converted to a tower in the main entrance. The octogonal dome you see in the middle lower part of the photo is the mihrab, or sacred center of Islamic prayer in the mosque.
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