The New in the Guise of the Old, the Old in the Guise of the New

Fig. 1.1. Fig. 1.2. Fig. 2.1. fig. 2.2. fig. 3.1. fig. 3.2. fig. 4.1. Fig. 4.2. Pyramid, sphere, ornament, and atrium: The images of these four puzzle pairs show four iconic architectural forms in different historical periods and functional settings and reveal the ambiguous relation between form and function as well as between form and signification. Like a reversible figure, these images oscillate between ambivalent functions and significations, a sacred place is echoed in a shop

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