Building types
Cross-cutting the atlas and the eras: what happens when you line up every solution to the same structural problem, a thousand years apart.
Buildings raised for gods, and what their geometry says about the people who raised them.
Architecture built for the dead — and, almost always, for the living who had to be impressed by it.
Crowd machines: buildings whose real engineering problem was people, not stone.
The medieval structural experiment that ran for four centuries with no theory of statics.
Where power built its self-portrait.
Whole urban fabrics — the hardest thing to reconstruct and the most revealing when you do.
Frontiers made of masonry, and what they were actually for.
The unglamorous engineering that decided where cities could exist at all.