Tuesday, November 16, 2021

THE INSPIRATION OF ROYAL SQUARES


LIKE THEM, IT IS SET APART...

*For the 17th-century model, please click.

Its architecture is homogeneous and straight lines converge toward the center...  



There used to be a statue of a king. It occupied the spot where straight lines meet and draw the eye, as did royal equestrian statues and the monuments that replaced them: 
 




That statue's presence
 must have been a coincidence. 
  
But the designers of the 1960's
surely looked to the squares of the past 
when they addressed the future.

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