Felix Arnold

• Dr. habil.
• Managing Director at German Archaeological Institute, Head Office

The legitimacy of studying Egyptian architecture on the basis of aesthetic considerations has been disputed in the past. Based on examples from the New Kingdom temples of Elephantine, the paper suggests that aesthetics were indeed a driving force in the design process of Egyptian architecture, at least in the early Eighteenth Dynasty. Texts from a...

The architecture of Spain of the 1920s and 1930s remains a little studied aspect of the emergence of the modern movement. In 1926 –1931 the architects Carlos Arniches and Martín Domínguez, both prominent members of the so called ›Generación del 25‹, constructed a country estate near Córdoba for the Marqués de Murrieta. The remains of the now lost v...

In 10th-century Córdoba, mathematics—and particularly geometry—was applied to architectural design in new ways, constituting a “mathematical turn” of Islamic architecture. In the mosque of Córdoba and in the palaces of Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ, geometry was employed in the design of ground plans, elevations, decorative patterns, and even to measure the hu...

Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in the Western Mediterranean region. This book offers a...

From autumn 2010 to spring 2013 the German Archaeological Institute and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt continued the investigation of the city and temples of Elephantine (Aswan). The preliminary report presents the results of some of the projects conducted during this period. As part of the ongoin...

In spring 2014 the team of the German Archaeological Institute (Cairo) continued its work at Dahshur. The focus was the excavation of an extensive brick structure north of the valley temple of king Snefru. The building is older than the stone temple and more extensive than previously thought. It was surrounded by a massive brick enclosure wall. Muc...

In spring 2013 the work of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo completed the documentation of the architecture of the valley temple of the Bent Pyramid. The brick building to the north of the temple was investigated. It predates the stone-temple and extended further to the west than previously thought. Cleaning work and a magnetic survey rev...

In autumn 2011 and spring 2012 the work of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo and the Free University of Berlin at Dahshur was continued with the excavation of the lower mudbrick causeway and harbour of the Bent Pyramid. It became clear that the lower causeway has a total length of 148 m and leads to a large U-shaped area measuring 145 x 95...

https://publications.dainst.org/journals/efb/1685/4590 e-Forschungsbericht 2015.1

The good state of preservation in Zambujal warrants the development of a proposal for the original appearance of a Copper Age fortified settlement. In the article the results of the excavation of Tower B by E. Sangmeister and H. Schubart are re-evaluated. Based on the stratigraphic evidence and the pottery finds, the history of the tower can be des...

During the 36th-38th season (autumn 2006 - spring 2009) at Elephantine the German Institute of Archaeology and the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt continued excavations and work on finds from earlier seasons. Excavation work focussed on the area between the temple of Satet and the sanctuary of Heqaib,...

In the Islamic domestic architecture of the Iberian Peninsula two changes can be observed during the twelfth century: the introduction of a wide arch to emphasize the centre of a façade and the addition of a tower with windows (mirador). In this essay the author proposes that both changes derive from the domestic architecture of the Abbaside empire...

Contemporary sources report, that the Nascombining dot belowride sultans of Granada were buried since 1325 in a mausoleum within the Alhambra known as Raudcombining dot belowa 'the (Paradise-)garden'. In 1924 Torres Balbás identified and excavated the last remains of this singular building. Based on the results of his work, the present article pres...