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These cliff dwellings were inhabited by indigenous peoples for hundreds up to a thousand years.
Estas viviendas en acantilados fueron usados por cientos de años por los indÃgenas del área.
The Gila Cliff Dwellings are a bit off the beaten path in New Mexico - but well worth the drive. Quite a challenge to get the shot without people in it...
Hand held 7 exposure HDR
Published in Highroads, July/August 2013; they initially wanted this image: www.flickr.com/photos/beachwalker2007/2911657703/in/set-7... but for layout reasons, decided on the horizontal version above.
Seen at the Cherokee Nation Ancient Village, this is a replica of a traditional Cherokee dwelling, built low to the ground and illuminated at both ends by natural lighting.
September Monthly Scavenger Hunt #4 - Architecture
The cave villages near Bamyan reflect layers of displacement, poverty and historical marginalization of the Hazara people in Afghanistan. The Hazaras are a minority which is religiously and ethnically distinct from the majority Sunni Pashtun majority. During the reign of Abdur Rahman Khan in the late 19th century, the Hazaras were subject to a large scale campaign of ethnic cleansing. Bamyan and its surrounding areas are high-altitude, mountainous, and historically underdeveloped. The land is difficult to farm, and infrastructure has always lagged behind. As a result, many families were forced to make do with whatever shelter they could find, including the ancient cave systems originally carved for Buddhist monks over 1,000 years ago. Even after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Hazara-majority regions remained poor and underfunded. Bamyan did become relatively safer and even saw some tourism and NGO activity, but housing shortages and lack of economic opportunity meant that cave-dwelling continued out of necessity, not tradition. Under the current Taliban regime (since 2021), while Bamyan has not seen the same level of violence as other regions, socioeconomic hardship has intensified. With collapsing services, inflation, and unemployment, the poorest — often Hazara families — remain in the caves, simply because there are no affordable alternatives.
Built in 1830
Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock Massachusetts
In the Berkshire Mountains
No time to explore this building on this visit. It is really beautiful inside. We toured it 5 years ago.
hancockshakervillage.org/shakers/museum/historic-architec...
The venetian fortress on the island of Spinalonga, near the coast of Crete, housed a leprosy between 1910 and 1957, when progress in medicine made it useless because of lack of patients Run into ruin, the settlement is now a museum, it can be visited by boat from Elounda or Agios Nikolaos (regular trips, cca 1h on boat can be booked directly on arrival on the touristic port)
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William Sutton bequeathed most of his wealth into trusts for housing for the poor. His will was disputed by his family and shockingly the London County Council who believed the dwellings would lead to lower rents!
Camera: Mamiya C330f
Lens: Mamiya-Rokor 105mm, f3.5
Film: Kodax TriX 400
The Tellem were the people who inhabited the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali. The Dogon people migrated to the escarpment region around the 14th century. The Tellem were pygmies or "small red people" who built dwellings around the base of the escarpment as well as directly into the cliff-face. Many of these structures are still visible in the area. Some Tellem buildings—most notably the granaries—are still in use by the Dogon, although generally Dogon villages are at the bottom or top of the escarpment, where water gathers and farming is possible. The Tellem people have disappeared from the area either by assimilation into the Dogon culture or some other unknown reason.
View of a two-story cabin showing a chimney and a picket fence.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Adolph Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Date:
1909
Location:
Raleigh (N.C.); Wake County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052); collection guide available online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/52postc.html
Madrona doesn't have housing tracts (thank goodness). There are, however many micro-subdivisions; two-and-three sets of homes easily marked as the craft of one contractor/architect. This pair is a good example.
The former doorway to 108-119 of the Wentworth Dwellings on Goulston Street. It is here that Jack the Ripper dropped a piece of torn apron from Catherine Eddowes undernearth some anti-semitic graffiti. The graffiti was immediately erased by Sir Charles Warren before it could be photographed, fearing anti-semetic riots had they waited.
The people are doing their own Jack the Ripper tour with a guide using this "Ripper Vision" thing where an image is projected onto a wall. Too gimmicky.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. Kodak T-Max 400 35mm B&W film.
Cave dwellings and their chimneys in Guadix, Province of Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
Guadix is a town on the left bank of the river Guadix near Granada, situated in a hilly loess-tufa area in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Guadix is known for its pottery and has a handfull of landmarks like the cathedral, some Renaissance buildings and a Renaissance square, but the most important and well-known thing about Guadix is that even today almost half of the inhabitants live in cave dwellings that were dug into the soft rocks. Most of them have white painted facades and white chimneys. The quality of the "troglodyte" homes ranges from mere caves to luxurious houses.
Andalusia holiday April 2012
Experience the architecture of the ancient Ancestral Puebloans at the Manitou Cliff Dwellings in Manitou Springs.
Address/Title: 1 West Marshall Street
Photographer: Zehmer, John G. (John Granderson), 1942-
Original Description (from Book): This is a good Italianate house of about 1875. The porch and other architectural features are all preserved, as is the cast iron porch.
City/Location: Richmond (Va.)
Date of photograph: ca. 1978
Map URL: maps.google.com/maps?q=37.546761,+-77.44154+(1%20West%20M...
Original Publication: Zehmer, John G., and Robert P. Winthrop. 1978. The Jackson Ward historic district. Richmond: Dept. of Planning and Community Development.
Rights: www.library.vcu.edu/copyright.html
Reference URL: dig.library.vcu.edu/u?/jwh,250
Collection: VCU Jackson Ward Historic District
I envisioned this piece as a cozy home, one that could be a cottage. Using the phrase "nest egg," I fashioned my cottage from photos from different parts of the world: the roof of one of the peculiar Cornish round houses, the windows and door from Mediterranean buildings. A collage, Dwelling is a home inside my head where comfort and unease reside together.
20 dwellings in two buildings. Built: 2009. Architect: Södergruppen arkitekter. Owner: Bollnäs Bostäder.
An unusually small log house, relocated from Clear Creek Township, Warren County (originally, the building stood on State Route 48, north of its intersection with State Route 73).
Unlike the other structures at Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village, this house remains sided.
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The Monastery of Santa Maria of Junia located around Pitões of Junias, in the parish of the same name, municipality Montalegre, District of Vila Real, Portugal.
Background
This monastery dates back to an ancient pre-Romanesque hermitage, founded in the ninth century, which it followed the criteria of isolation. It lies in a narrow valley, inaccessible and far from roads and dwellings, enrolled in a grandiose landscape background.
In contrast to other monasteries of northern Portugal, which in general are possessors of productive hunting grounds, this first community of monks Junia depended on pastoralism, stressed the fact that his character humble and ascetic.
The current monastery
The current monastery temple and its annex were built during the first half of the twelfth century, even before the founding of the nation. It was then occupied monks of the Order of St. Benedict.
In the middle of the thirteenth century, the monastery began to follow the rule of the Cistercian Order, been added to the Abbey Oseira in Galicia.
Over the centuries this monastery was enriched with obtaining land in the region of Barroso and Galicia.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, known maintenance and improvement works which highlights the construction of the cloister and the expansion of the chancel.
In the early modern works were carried out lifting some dependencies of the convent and chapel of the temple, though destroyed by siltation caused by the stream that runs along the head of it.
In the first half of the eighteenth century, the church was restored, both the timber and the lajeamento and redecorated with gilded altarpieces. From the middle of this century, however, began to go into decline and eventually lost income and monks.
With the extinction of the male religious orders (1834) spent his last monk to perform the duties of pastor of Pitões. In the second half of the nineteenth century, a devastating fire led to the ruin of many monastic dependencies.
The Monastery of Santa Maria delle Junia is classified as a National Monument by Decree No. 37728 of January 5, 1950.
In 1986 the Directorate General for National Buildings and Monuments has carried out extensive rehabilitation and improvement.
More recently, in 1994 and 1995, the Peneda-Geres promoted an archaeological intervention in the cloister and the convent kitchen.
The church of this convent happens a pilgrimage annually on 15 August, the people who come to Pitões of Junia and neighboring villages.
Character
This monastery has been organized according to a trapezoidal, being the church located on the north side to the south dependencies convent.
The divisions of the convent, largely collapsed, comprises two bodies: the first, parallel to the creek, it was the monks' dormitory. The second, which is perpendicular to the first, was where the kitchen was located, which still maintains its pyramidal chimney.
The old Romanesque cloister only retain three arches of the gallery leaning against the church. Back perfect, based in capitals decorated phytomorphic.
The temple has a single nave and chancel which is the best preserved structure of the monastery. In front, topped by a gable Romanesque truncated by an eighteenth-century belfry two eyes, opens with a beautiful doorway round arch, with a first and a second archivolt smooth exterior, adorned with lancets, in turn surrounded by a frieze with geometric decoration.
The arc abacuses were decorated by cordiform reasons, while the eardrum shows, the lower level, a lintel stylized flower decorated with cruciform and, above this, a Maltese cross poured framed by circular perforations arranged in a triangle.
The side walls of the nave ripping two portals simple, hollow by tympani crosses Malta, similar, being surmounted by frieze and cornice framed and covered the half wall for a frieze decorated with geometric motifs, under which projecting corbels, also adorned by these geometrical elements. The axial window of ousia shows the overlap of the Romanesque Gothic style home.
On a side window of ousia, facing north, a curious recumbent statue of a monk is interpreted by the population as the landmark of the maximum quota transfers the river over the centuries.
Inside a preserved ornate frieze that runs the height of the nave windows. The triumphal arch, two archivolts supported at Abaci smooth rounded off, is framed by two engravings. In the chancel, has become a main altarpiece with an elaborately carved composition.
Português
O Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias localiza-se nos arredores de Pitões das Júnias, na freguesia de mesmo nome, concelho de Montalegre, Distrito de Vila Real, em Portugal.
Antecedentes
Este convento remonta a um antigo eremitério pré-românico, fundado no século IX, cuja implantação obedeceu a critérios de isolamento. Encontra-se num vale estreito, de difÃcil acesso e longe dos caminhos e de lugares habitados, inscrito em um grandioso fundo paisagÃstico.
Em contraste com outros cenóbios do Norte de Portugal, que no geral são possuidores de produtivos coutos, esta primeira comunidade de monges das Júnias dependia da pastorÃcia, fato que acentuou o seu carácter humilde e ascético.
O atual mosteiro
O atual mosteiro e seu templo anexo foram erguidos durante a primeira metade do século XII, antes mesmo da fundação da nacionalidade. Era então ocupado monges da Ordem de São Bento.
Em meados do século XIII, o mosteiro passou a seguir a regra da Ordem de Cister, ficado agregado à Abadia de Oseira, na Galiza.
Ao longo dos séculos, este mosteiro foi enriquecendo com a obtenção de terras na região do Barroso e na Galiza.
No inicio do século XIV, conheceu obras de manutenção e melhoramento em que se destaca a construção do claustro e a ampliação da capela-mor.
No inÃcio da Idade Moderna foram realizadas obras de elevação de algumas dependências do convento e da capela-mor do templo, entretanto destruÃdas pelo assoreamento provocado pelo ribeiro que corre junto à cabeceira do mesmo.
Na primeira metade do século XVIII, a igreja foi restaurada, a nÃvel do madeiramento e do lajeamento, e redecorada com retábulos em talha dourada. A partir de meados desse século, entretanto, começou a entrar em decadência e acabou por perder monges e rendimentos.
Com a extinção das ordens religiosas masculinas (1834) o seu último monge passou a exercer a função de pároco de Pitões. Na segunda metade do século XIX, um devastador incêndio levou à ruÃna muitas das dependências conventuais.
O Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias encontra-se classificado como Monumento Nacional pelo Decreto nº 37.728 de 5 de Janeiro de 1950.
Em 1986 a Direcção-Geral dos EdifÃcios e Monumentos Nacionais levou a efeito obras de recuperação e melhoramento.
Mais recentemente, em 1994 e 1995, o Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês promoveu uma intervenção arqueológica no claustro e na cozinha conventuais.
À igreja deste convento acontece uma romaria anual, a 15 de Agosto, a que acorrem gentes de Pitões das Júnias e de povoações vizinhas.
CaracterÃsticas
Este mosteiro apresenta-se organizado segundo uma planta trapezoidal, encontrando-se a igreja implantada no lado norte a as dependências conventuais no sul.
As divisões do convento, em grande desmoronadas, compreendem dois corpos: o primeiro, paralelo ao riacho, era o dormitório dos monges. O segundo, que se encontra perpendicular ao primeiro, era onde se localizava a cozinha, que ainda mantém a sua chaminé piramidal.
Do antigo claustro românico só se conservam três arcos da galeria encostada à igreja. De volta perfeita, assentam em capitéis com decoração fitomórfica.
O templo tem nave única e uma capela-mor que é a estrutura mais bem conservada do cenóbio. Na frontaria, românica rematada por uma empena truncada por um campanário setecentista de dois olhais, abre-se um belo portal com arco de volta perfeita, com uma primeira arquivolta lisa e uma segunda, exterior, adornada com lancetas, por sua vez envolvida por um friso com decoração geométrica.
Os ábacos do arco foram decorados por motivos cordiformes, enquanto o tÃmpano apresenta, ao nÃvel inferior, um dintel decorado com flores estilizadas cruciformes e, por cima deste, uma cruz de Malta vazada, enquadrada por perfurações circulares dispostas em triângulo.
Nas paredes laterais da nave rasgam-se dois portais simples, de tÃmpanos vazados por cruzes de Malta, semelhantes entre si, sendo rematadas por friso e cornija moldurada e percorridos, a meia parede, por um friso adornado com motivos geométricos, sob o qual se projectam mÃsulas, também estas enfeitadas por elementos geometrizantes. A janela axial da ousia mostra a sobreposição do estilo gótico ao românico inicial.
Numa janela lateral da ousia, voltada a norte, uma curiosa estátua jacente de um monge é interpretada pela população como sendo o marco da cota máxima transbordos do rio ao longo dos séculos.
No interior conserva-se um friso ornamentado que percorre a nave à altura das janelas. O arco triunfal, de duas arquivoltas lisas apoiadas em ábacos boleados, é enquadrado por dois retábulos de talha. Na capela-mor, dispõe-se um retábulo-mor com uma elaborada composição em talha.