‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?

“It really draws out the batshit crazy,” says Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein, standing in front of his monumental new drawings of what Solomon’s Temple, and its contents, might have looked like. “It has been used as a cipher for pretty much every crazy projection of power and self-delusion for 2,500 years. I find it totally fascinating – particularly as the whole thing is entirely fabricated.”

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