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.

When Do You Experience Innovation in Architecture? (Slideshow)

by Maria Lorena Lehman

Slideshows

With so many buildings in the world today, how do you know when you experience innovation in architecture? I think innovation in architecture can happen at different scales, in different cultures and at different times. The following slideshow is an exploration into understanding when you experience innovation, so that you can extract meaning and knowledge from those experiences to ultimately bring back what you learn from them to inject that into your work.

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

When Do You Experience Innovation in Architecture?

Image Credits (in order of appearance): Flickr —Sven Lindner, inspiration_seeker, jglsongs, Jakob Montrasio, George Lu, CHRISTOPHER MACSURAK, sergis blog.

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