Hey folks, something I found recently that I wanted to share with readers.
This article shows a project to build ancient Roman villas using ordinary household Legos.
Villas, as Wikipedia shows, were a kind of country housing complex owned by wealthy, rural landowners. It was also commonplace for wealthy citizens in Rome to own country villas in addition to their elite properties in the city. Cicero had a property close to the Roman Forum (unfortunately right next to his hated rival Clodius), as well as a villa in Pompeii, and one out in Formia which was eventually caught by Octavian’s troops and executed.
Villas in Roman culture vaguely remind me of Japanese shinden-zukuri (寝殿造) which were villas for the wealthy class too:
The cultural similarities are probably only surface-level, but it’s interesting when totally different cultures tend to arrive at similar patterns. 🙂
Back to the article, I do have similar legos at home, so I wonder if might be able to build something similar someday. If so, I’ll post here.
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields 
