Section 02
Cities & Mosques
How the great buildings are organised. Ordered by layer rather than by importance.
ByzantineOttomanLiving layer4 guides
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How Hagia Sophia Holds Up That DomePendentives, buttresses and fifteen centuries of remedial work.
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Topkapı Is a Series of CourtyardsA palace organised as thresholds rather than as a building.
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How an Ottoman Mosque Is Laid OutDome, half-domes, courtyard and the logic underneath the silhouette.
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The Case for the Bosphorus FerryThe cheapest good hour in Istanbul, and what you actually see.
The other rooms
Five sections; the same country read five ways.