childhood is liking the Great Pyramids, adulthood is realizing

>>3064668
I was actually just reading up on Angkor and the Khmer. Some Chinese ambassador named Zhou Daguan wrote a pretty detailed record of Khmer society and it was basically the most degenerate shit you can imagine.
>slavery on a mass scale
>girls getting married as early as 7 to 11 and looking 20 years older than their biological age
>incredibly expensive and decadent monarchy despite Buddhism being adopted a few centuries before

Sukhothai did nothing wrong

>>3064724
>"The women age very quickly, no doubt because they marry and give birth when too young. When they are twenty or thirty years old, they look like Chinese women who are forty or fifty."

Gross

>>3064668
south east Asian architecture is best architecture

>>3064724
What kind of SJW thinks any of that is degenerate?

>>3064668
Could use a good power wash.

>>3064724
Degenerate is a buzzword for "things I don't like". A better term would be morally reprehensible.

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>>3064724
It's obviously been a case like often of other civilizations that their demise was well deserved. Nothing of value lost here.

Anyways, there are plenty of rock cut temples all over India particularly in the South. The Kailasa temple looks like a similar and more impressive feat to the stone cut Church of St. George in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The East African coast was an area of known interaction with Indian culture through the spice trade. Sudan's Angareb bed and Kenya's Swahili bed are similar to the South Asian charpoy though the people there today swear by their native origin.

>>3064668
Bantey Srey is better preserved today in terms of the detail of the stone carvings we can see. I've even been to temples from the Chenla period which predates Angkor. Just yesterday, UNESCO made Prasat Prei Kuk, the capital of Chenla, a heritage site.

>>3064849
its very interesting thats for sure

id appreciate it if somebody could dump a bunch of pretty pictures desu

>>3064668
Wat

>>3064724
you know chauvinistic accounts of the degeneracy/barbarism in foreign countries is basically a literary genre right

>>3064668
Meh, I only like Mesoamerican Pyramids. At least they had some use for it than some glorified cemetery.

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>>3064849

Angkor what?

>>3065700
looks comfy

>>3065571
shabam!

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Adulthood is realizing there's a lot of maginficent buildings around the world.

>>3065030
can't tell if you're being serious lol

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>>3066700
*magnificent

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>>3066700
>a castle made of mud
Yeah mate so magnificent

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Adulthood is realizing Nuraghi make more sense

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>>3066711
philistine

>>3066727
That's nice though

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One day I'll visit these Mesoamerican pyramids, fascinating me since I was a little child...

>>3066700
Is that really what Timbuktu looked like at its peak? Because that's massively unimpressive compared to the rest of the thread. Literally just plain mud walls with planks of (wood?) poking out. Where is the detail work?

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>>3066751
apparantly a lot disappeared due to the city being literally made out of mud and sand

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>>3066780
personally I still think it's beautiful

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>>3066781
another painting

>>3066711
it is kind of impressive, tho

>>3065589
Do you know any particularly good reading in the genre?

>>3065104
>that image
Holy shit. It's hard to comprehend that the Romans, Persians, Chinese and Indians made stuff like that millennia ago.
It's a master piece even by today's standards.

>>3066979
It's really not, you're just being nice because the blacks made it

>>3067045
Das rite

No seriously, of course I know it's not as sophisticated as say the Dome in Cologne, but I still think it looks nice and is a cultural heritage of great value.

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best building coming through

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>>3066697

>blocks your path

>>3064668
Nice temple, but "only" 800 years old tho.
Pyramids are 4600 years old.

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>>3067615
That's a joke right?

Look at the placement of those beams

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Childhood is liking primitive ancient monuments, adulthood is realizing that postmodernism is a superior form of architecture

>>3067615
>>3068218
everything about that building is disgusting, how the fuck did he manage that

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>>3068226
bullshit
>>3068022
also beautiful, but Gothic architecture is superior imo, also the best oriental buildings are more eastern, look at Samarqand for example.

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>>3068226
>not even postmodernism

fucking pleb, now THIS is postmodernism

>>3068218

silly autist your autism is showing

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>>3068218
>>3068315
not even joking to be quite honest Le Corbusier is the finest architect the world ever had, and the only true successor to the Ancients in terms of monumental style if I'm to be quite honest with you

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>>3067615
>>3068226
>>3068640
Not as good as Art Deco

>>3068604
pretty nice actually but could be better

>>3068226
That's not postmodernism...

>>3068640
No, that's disgusting.