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Senenmut

c. 15th century BCE · Egyptian steward and architect · Ancient Egypt

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Kneeling Statue of Senenmut Holding Hathor Symbol (detail ). 18th Dynasty, c. 1470 B.C., granit. Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, in München.
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Court official and architect associated with one of ancient Egypt’s most sophisticated terraced monuments.

Key works

  • Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

THE RETHINK

Senenmut helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Senenmut changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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