Babylon, there and back. From the Architect King to the King Architect.

Authors

  • Joaquín Sanmartín Instituto Universitario del Próximo Oriente Antiguo (IPOA), Universidad de Barcelona.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/dc.25-26.2767

Keywords:

Power, Architecture, King, simbol, star system

Abstract

The (few) Mesopotamian architect-kings who -approaching to gods- used thesign DINGIR “star” happen to meet with the (many) king-architects of the (post)modernismin one point: his stellar vocation. The star system of ones and others, architect-kings orking-architects, tend bridges across more than three thousand years of history.

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Published

2013-12-01