frustrationPlate 538 · Ctesiphon, Iraq

Taq Kasra

The largest unreinforced brick vault on earth, a ruin of an empire of kings of kings.

6th c. · Sasanian builders · Middle East

The chamber score

Taqsim in Maqam Rast

Munir Bashir · Iraqi oud

The maqam was invented near these ziggurats.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Arch of Ctesiphon, a wonder of Sasanian engineering.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Taq Kasra through frustration — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Taq Kasra was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.