www.quondam.com/05/0434.htm

Note statue of St. Helena in lower right corner.

From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: Re: The history of the destruction of architecture
Date: 2004.03.26 16:57

Imagine how different ancient architectural history would be if there were existing records of all the 'Pagan' temples destroyed in the name of Christianity. For example, where exactly in Greece did the spiral columns within the original St. Peter's Basilica (later reenacted via the baldachin by Bernini) come from? [It was Eutropia that first told Helena about these columns and their original locations.]

Or what would architectural history be like if all the buildings that were ever erected on this planet were a matter of record?

[Again, so much for (the rise in) metabolic thinking.]

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