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Communication is crucial to architecture

There is a famous anecdote about Sinan, the architect: when he was building the Selimiye Mosque, a child pointed at the minarets and claimed one of them was leaning. Sinan reacted immediately, instructing the workers to attach ropes to the minaret and pull until the child confirmed the minaret was now straight. The minaret wasn’t actually leaning, and the workers didn’t change anything by pulling. The perception of the minarets was at risk, and Sinan addressed that.

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