"The Monumental Iwan: A Symbolic Space or A Functional Device?"

1991-01-01
Peker, Ali Uzay
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History of architecture, Iwan, Courtyard with Four Cross-Axial Iwans, Cosmology, Architecture
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/content/view/26/29/
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85560
Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture
Department of Architecture, Article

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A. U. Peker, ““The Monumental Iwan: A Symbolic Space or A Functional Device?”,” Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture, pp. 5–19, 1991, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/content/view/26/29/.
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