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Byzantine Architecture
We are going to look at three examples of Byzantine architecture in this lecture:
- Hagia Sophia, which used a system of pendentives, domes, half-domes, and exedrae to create one of the world’s greatest examples of engineering
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, which utilized a domical vault to span its central space
Gracanica Church, which offers an excellent example of a cross-in-square church
- The major goal of Byzantine architecture was to dematerialize space.
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