(Money for the construction is very easy to raise from the nascent community; people like to give to tangible, concrete projects, and there is clear textual support for building mosques).
Then there are the self-styled "guerilla preservationists", deep into heritage theory, and genuinely committed to creating a coherent photographic and textual record of buildings that would otherwise crumble unnoticed until a developer arrived to raze all trace of them.
Students will become familiar with major iconographical themes, symbolic meanings of buildings, textual sources of these programs (the Bible, biblical apocrypha, mystery plays, legends, fable and theology) and the reasons behind their creation.
It is possible that the Guodian texts only furnished some of the textual "raw material" or "building blocks" that were used later to create the Laozi (Boltz 1999).
-Reading for Their Life: (Re)Building the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males by Alfred Tatum.
Though humans have been creating ontologies for many years, efficient ontology building processes in textual corpus are extremely ad hoc.
Data associated with IFC can include: textual data, images (such as building schematics); structured documents, numerical models and designer/project manager annotations.
By comparing the Zhou state-building narrative from textual sources with patterns observed in our archaeological survey in the Qufu region, our collaborative research project investigates the role of place memory in the creation or renewal of urban tradition in the Zhou society of the early first millennium BCE.
Modern CAD software usually consists of sophisticated tools for graphically building multidimensional models, together with textual programming languages for dealing with tasks such as specifying parameterized constructs or complex relationships between components.
But it is also a story of increasingly accurate textual representation and of remarkable success in building an audience.
