Sunday, May 13, 2012

Architectural elements

My alma mater, Louisiana Tech University, has had, for many years, a summer study program in Rome. Would be architects, in particular, signed up for "Tech Rome" as I recall. Now I know why. The buildings and other structures are pretty amazing especially considering the time and tools of their creation.
The classic designs abound causing gorgeous things to be even more, well, gorgeous.
One of my favorite designs, Egg and Dart, was prevalent in Rome and in Venice.



ancient egg and dart in the forum


egg and dart on a column in venice

I am rather inspired to incorporate the egg and dart pattern into a new set of notecards... just as soon as I learn how to tranfer images onto paper...

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