Architecture+-+Munich

=Architecture is literally Building with Geometry...= =Here is a photograph contributed by my friend Jeff Chester,= =a photographer, taken in Munich, Germany, summer 2010...=

**huge columns, many stairs, the enormous building facade,the huge historical lamp-post like a monument and the complementary **
==**smaller street lamp-post, etc. And even the focus of our attention, the humanly alive female walking up the central staircase... **== ==**is a vertical bright softness of life and color, in this otherwise grey dormant weighty overbearing edifice from a bygone era... **==

==**And there is a trick in this photograph, (there is always a trick in a Jeff Chester photograph :-) to the observant viewer, upon care-full examination through the majestic columned portico to the building facade background: **==

**"The building in the foreground is the Bavarian National Theater in Munich -- home of the Bavarian State Opera **
==**http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/866-ZmxhZz0xJmw9ZW4-~Staatsoper~bso_aktuell~aktuelles.html**==

**to be continued... **

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