4.S26 | Spring 2016 | Graduate

Territory: Spatial Reification of Power

Herodotus and Kirchner’s plan for the city of Babylon

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Herodotus and Kirchner’s plan for the city of Babylon is articulated through a series of opposed but complementary territorial strategies: space is concomitantly enclosed and traversed, interrupted and connected, and flattened and folded. This image is in the public domain.

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A black and white etching of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon featuring a procession of nobility in the foreground.
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Herodotus and Kirchner’s plan for the city of Babylon is articulated through a series of opposed but complementary territorial strategies: space is concomitantly enclosed and traversed, interrupted and connected, and flattened and folded. This image is in the public domain.
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This image is in the public domain.
A black and white etching of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon featuring a procession of nobility in the foreground.

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