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Document Details : Title: From Median to Achaemenian Palace Architecture Author(s): HUFF, Dietrich Journal: Iranica Antiqua Volume: 40 Date: 2005 Pages: 371-395 DOI: 10.2143/IA.40.0.583217 Abstract : The Achaemenian apadana-type palace appeared under Darius I. (522486 BC) in its fully developed shape and continued to be built basically unchanged throughout the Achaemenian period. The question of its formation remained open despite repeated discussions. A serious problem for the solution of the question is a certain incompatibility with its historically secured predecessors, the palatial buildings of Cyrus in Pasargadae. The basic problem however, seems to be the limitation of research to formal developments. Architecture cannot be understood as an art-historical phenomenon alone. It is the result of an entirety of habits of life, of functional, practical, technical, emotional traditional and esthetical factors. |
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