Residents with motorbikes shuttled reporters through Wukan's labyrinthine alleyways and temple squares.
Of course there have always been programs in architecture, but before the 18th century these programs existed in the form of liturgies, public rituals, which demanded specific spaces for their enactment such as temples, squares, markets and houses.
The Yankees, in sleek and tailored pinstripes, are a handsome and graceful bunch, from the matinee idols Jeter and Rodriguez to the elder statesman Tony Clark, whose graying temples, square-jawed good looks and equanimity would cast him as a prosperous banker.
Much of the city's storied beauty -- colonnaded streets, temples, squares -- which had weathered twenty centuries, has now been shattered forever.
In 1996, church leaders in Salt Lake announced plans for a granite temple — 94,000 square feet with six soaring spires — on a hilltop adjacent to the Belmont meetinghouse.
As is customary, we removed our shoes before entering the temple, a square hall with polished black-granite statues of various gods standing in shrines all around.
The excavation of two fortress cities, Karmirblur and Arin Berd, in Armenia, together with many others in Anatolia itself, has also revealed some unique features of Urartian architecture, including a standard form of temple: a square, towerlike building anticipating the temple-towers of Achaemenian times in Persia.
Cross the street and you can duck inside Sreepadman, a no-nonsense, no-decor, locals' bar with a backyard seating area commanding a view over the temple's square stone bathing tank, moss-covered steps leading down to the deep green water.
Our host described that many of the temples and squares were places that families and communities gathered, were now devastated and changed forever for them.
