Deus Ex Machina: A Thesis of Three Follies

An Architectural Thesis of Three Follies in (Washington D.C.)

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Materials

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HOMESTEADS

PALACES

SHAPE TYPE: Homestead NAME: Levittown

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SHAPE TYPE: Homestead NAME: Trailer

ELEMENT TYPE: Door NAME: Mihrab Portal

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ELEMENT TYPE: Hearth NAME: Power Plant

ELEMENT TYPE: Column NAME: Doric

ELEM NAME

ELEMENT TYPE: Stair NAME: Fire Escape

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Fig. (44) Ford's Theater Where Our President Died Mathew Brady. c. 1860 Washington D.C. Library of Congress

Fig. (45) Treasury Mathew Brady. c. 1860 Washington D.C. Library of Congress

Fig. (46) Mathew Brady. c. 1860 Washington D.C. Library of Congress

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Fig. (65) Architectural plans for a basilica

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