Major Project: Historical and architectural references

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2022/05/02

Ancient burial grounds

https://news.berkeley.edu/2013/06/04/roman-concrete/

• Looking at ancient construction processes

• Use of raw materials

• Fragmented shapes and geometries

https://www.vita-romae.com/roman-concrete.html

• Use of ancient Terrazzo

• Taking small minerals, stones, marble chunks and bonding them together

Ancient Roman decorative concrete relief

Neolithic site containing earliest example of terrazzo flooring

https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/ta_1_2c.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/quaternary-of-the-levant/archaeology-of-early-farming-in-southeast-turkey/C9EE6F2EF9C3B991DBC172FE2ABE8672

Ancient artefacts:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-door-to-afterlife-from-ancient-egyptian-tomb-found-2010mar29-story.html

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452203

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/457717

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grarc/hd_grarc.htm

https://www.seevenice.it/en/venetian-floors-in-terrazzo-marble-and-glass-mosaics-what-makes-them-special/

Post-modernist and Brutalist sculptural relief

https://www.stayingcool.com/blog/brutalist-birmingham/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/north-via-south-mesoamerican-brutalism

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/brutalism-trend-interiors

https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/photo-essay-simon-phipps-concrete-poetry-post-war-modernist-public-art/

• Looking at a combination of aesthetics from ancient civilisations and post modernist architecture

• I can reference these forms within my own work - looking at how geometries and use of raw materials and ancient construction can be applied to my work.