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HERITAGE: CARVED IN STONE; The Armenian Architecture of Baku and Tbilisi.

Perhaps more than any other artform, architecture is a intermittent metaphor
in Armenian history.

If building as an article of faith approachs closest to defining an Armenian
national character, building as unpolluted practice has yielded an architectural
heritage that is marked on an enigmatic juxtaposition - and many times
concordance - of technological innovation and spirituality.

At their best, the themes of Armenian architecture are signposts for
cultural fusion rather than points of delineation: Armenian

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