2021年6月15日 · Peter Märkli’s hand-drawn section of the ancient monument Hagia Sophia (532–7) is part of a working process developed alongside his design work. The output is a collection of investigative drawings that document sacred archetypal buildings, and articulate his resolved thesis that ‘architecture has a language’.

2024年11月9日 · The Hagia Sophia was built under the direction of Emperor Justinian I in 537 AD, symbolizing the might and faith of the Byzantine Empire. The design was pioneering for its time, as it aimed to establish a monumental spiritual space representing heaven on earth.

antiquities and sites. The mosaics that have illuminated the interior of the Hagia Sophia for over a thousand years, have been placed in and out of unstable conditions for far too long— regimes that have dominated the sociopolitical sphere in Istanbul have always used the Hagia Sophia as one of the most influential and effective

2024年1月3日 · The architectural complexity of Hagia Sophia, a grand monument erected by Justinian in Constantinople, has been a topic of substantial investigation across diverse disciplines such as architecture, art history, and archaeology.

Commissioned by Justinian the Great, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Hagia Sophia stood as the largest cathedral in the entire world from the date it was completed in December of 537 until nearly a millennia after when the Seville Cathedral in Spain was completed in 1520.

2019年7月1日 · The work shows the results of a multi-analytical study performed on twenty-nine brick samples taken from Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Turkey). Hagia Sophia, one of the most important historical buildings in the world, has a very complex construction history. This complexity is also reflected in the materials that were used for its construction.

2025年1月7日 · Hagia Sophia, an important Byzantine structure in Istanbul and one of the world’s great monuments. It was built as a Christian church in the 6th century ce (532–537) under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. In subsequent centuries it became a mosque, a museum, and a mosque again.

Hagia Sophia is the symbol of Byzantium in the same way that the Parthenon embodies Classical Greece or the Eiffel Tower typifies Paris. Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles for Emperor Justinian, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 532–37 (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

2024年8月7日 · The Hagia Sophia, a monumental structure located in Istanbul, Turkey, has stood the test of time as a symbol of architectural brilliance, religious significance, and cultural confluence. Originally constructed as a Christian cathedral, it has served various religious purposes over the centuries and remains one of the most iconic landmarks in ...

From the Golden Age of Byzantium, this mosque was once a Catholic church, is one of the most extraordinary buildings in the history of architecture. He played an important role in both architectural and liturgical Eastern Orthodox confession in the Byzantine Empire and, later, as a mosque during the Ottoman Empire.