Church of Constantinople Sancta Sophia – W.R. Lethaby
Sancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the earth’s surface. Like Karnak in Egypt or the Parthenon of Athens, it is one of the four great peaks of architecture, but unlike them, it is not a ruin and does not belong to the past world of constructive ideas, although it comes seven hundred years before the fourth peak. It is an example of building art in Chartres, Amiens or Bourges, and therefore must always remain the supreme monument of the Christian era. Our first aim was to try to unravel a little bit of the history of the Church and to analyze the design and construction of the church; On the one hand, we took a step or two towards the labyrinth of the topography of Constantinople, and on the other hand, we thought that the great church offered the best vantage point for the observation of Byzantine building theory.