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Architecture Through Time

Things with no place

How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?

This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.

Ideas and conditionsLoad pathReinforced concreteRoman concrete (opus caementicium)Structural steelAnthemius of TrallesFazlur Rahman KhanWilliam Le Baron JenneyThe voussoir archCorbelling (the false arch and false dome)The domeThe flying buttressThe Gothic rib vaultMegalithic post-and-lintel constructionThe pendentiveThe steel skeleton frameThe curtain wallThe safety elevator
Schematic. 17 objects, arranged by kind. No position, no distance, no motion.
Ideas and conditions17

Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.