Re: Porches and other things | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson![]() |
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 95 10:58:41 CST |
Shava SHAVA [at] NETWORK-SERVICES.UOREGON.EDU S: SHAVA [at] PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU is the author of the message below but due to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred). **************** FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS ********************* > According to one of the historical housing books I read yesterday---the > roofed over porch was used extensively in the ancient Greek societies. > > The writers said that the height of the roof above the porch was so high that > it couldn't shelter people standing on the porch from the sun or adverse > weather. > > Apparantly, the covered porch was a spiritual space, where one is expected to > pause, before entering the building. Personally, I find a mezuzah a more effective use of resources to the same purpose...;) Obviously there's a disagreement of scholarship here somewhere, since Golden_Thread listed city plans and showed the familiar angle-of-incidence diagrams of how the porches worked. However, it could be that we are just missing periods. You are talking about *ancient* Greece, and I am talking about Classical Greece thru Imperial Rome. There were a couple hundreds of years for the technology to advance in there. Shava
- RE: Porches and other things, (continued)
- RE: Porches and other things Rob Sandelin, August 2 1995
- Re: Porches and other things Sofistic, August 2 1995
- Re: Porches and other things Fred H Olson WB0YQM, August 3 1995
- Re: Re: Porches and other things Harry Pasternak, August 3 1995
- Re: Porches and other things Fred H Olson WB0YQM, August 4 1995
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