Pantheon of Wonder

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This is the 'Pantheon of Wonder', a journal with over 550+ essays on the poetic design of architecture, art, music, and meaning. It is a growing chronicle of over 25 years of research and innovation by Maria Lorena Lehman that helps you develop your creative projects for advanced beauty, function, and transcendent experience.

What Makes a Building Truly Poetic Architecture? (Slideshow)

by Maria Lorena Lehman

Slideshows

Poetic architecture taps into that moment when architecture transcends itself, when it becomes more than simply a physical space — and exudes to a sense of place and beauty that words cannot often describe. Thus, I put together the following slideshow to explore the issue of poetic architecture, to get your mind thinking of how to make more out of your work, and to become more aware of the poetics which surround you — so such poetic thinking will come more readily to you while you design.

Thus, each photograph within the slideshow below represents an answer to the following question:

What Makes a Building Truly Poetic Architecture?

Image Credits (in order of appearance): Flickr —UggBoy♥UggGirl [ PHOTO // WORLD // TRAVEL ], Jakob Montrasio, Eustaquio Santimano, seier+seier, seier+seier, o palsson, telmo32

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