Interiors of Ukrainian traditional residential buildings from central parts of Ukraine. Exhibits of the Museum of Folk Architecture  in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky on the pages of the album "Treasures of our memory" (1993)

The Golden Temple Amritsar India (Sri Harmandir Sahib Amritsar) has a unique Sikh architecture. Built at a level lower than the surrounding land level, The Gurudwara teaches the lesson of egalitarianism and humility. The four entrances of this holy shrine from all four directions, signify that people belonging to every walk of life are equally welcome.

Perhaps minimalist design is so prevalent because we no longer have anything to say.

The Cultural Tutor

Visiting the year 2024 in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

A Pigeonnier (Pigeon House), Somewhere in France

hold your children

I'm just exploding in slow motion until the rest of episode 7 comes out

Schloss Drachenburg, Königswinter, Germany,

Photo by @world_walkerz

Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Quetzalcoatl, at Teotihuacán, Mexico. Active approximately 1st to 7th centuries CE.

📸 by me.

Burnt offering in a Temple by Ludwig Kohl

My escape.

The Ballroom - Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Photographed by Freddie Ardley - instagram

Illustrated Comparison of Asian Architecture and Roof Styles

New York, New York; 1990s

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In his 1956 book The Marlinspike Sailor, marine illustrator Hervey Garrett Smith wrote that rope is “probably the most remarkable product known to mankind.” On its own, a stray thread cannot accomplish much. But when several fibers are twisted into yarn, and yarn into strands, and strands into string or rope, a once feeble thing becomes both strong and flexible—a hybrid material of limitless possibility. A string can cut, choke, and trip; it can also link, bandage, and reel. String makes it possible to sew, to shoot an arrow, to strum a chord. It’s difficult to think of an aspect of human culture that is not laced through with some form of string or rope; it has helped us develop shelter, clothing, agriculture, weaponry, art, mathematics, and oral hygiene. Without string, our ancestors could not have domesticated horses and cattle or efficiently plowed the earth to grow crops. If not for rope, the great stone monuments of the world—Stonehenge, the Pyramids at Giza, the moai of Easter Island—would still be recumbent. In a fiberless world, the age of naval exploration would never have happened; early light bulbs would have lacked suitable filaments; the pendulum would never have inspired advances in physics and timekeeping; and there would be no Golden Gate Bridge, no tennis shoes, no Beethoven’s fifth symphony.

“Everybody knows about fire and the wheel, but string is one of the most powerful tools and really the most overlooked,” says Saskia Wolsak, an ethnobotanist at the University of British Columbia who recently began a PhD on the cultural history of string. “It’s relatively invisible until you start looking for it. Then you see it everywhere.”

 —   The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String