Imperial Materialities: Tracing the Cross-Cultural Sacralization of Byzantine Architectures

How does a building reflect the character of the populations it serves? And might a single building contain divergent meanings for two distinct civilizations that have served as its steward over time?In this podcast, Louis Prosperie narrates the cross-cultural sacralization of two religious structures of Byzantium--the Hagia Sophia and the Cappella Palatina--to demonstrate the complex ways that national religious movements remake architectural spaces in their own image. If you listen closely, he provides you with the critical tools to analyze your own architectural traditions in new and interesting ways.