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Tag Archives: Rome
Preservation in Newport
Preservationists have a vital but relatively simple job that has been made more difficult, over the years, by preservationists. The purpose of preserving a historic building is to sustain the beauty it brings to its setting. How to do this … Continue reading
Rome: Who are those guys?
Who are those guys? Good question. But first, I must point out that indecipherable notes on a recent lecture force me to leapfrog a topic I’d intended to address today and grab a quicky topic instead. I’ve chosen to simply … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, Cities, classical architecture, Europe, Modern Architecture, Preservation, RIBA, Rome
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Chicken, egg, preservation
Steven Semes is head of the new master’s program in historic preservation in the School of Architecture at Notre Dame, about which I wrote last year in “Preservation at Notre Dame.” Semes writes in the latest issue of Traditional Building … Continue reading
Roman Forum, live, at night
Above is how the Roman Forum might look at night today if it had never degenerated into ruins since the empire, or if it had been reconstructed as it was at the apogee of its ancient fame. The work, by … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Ancient Ruins, Cinecitta, Clayton Fulkerson, HBO Rome, Leon Krier, Reconstruction, Roman Forum, Rome
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Krier: Ruins and discontents
Since we are still on our reconstruction roll, here is an excellent essay by Leon Krier, architectural theorist and master planner of Prince Charles’s new town of Poundbury. It was originally intended as an introduction to The Roman Forum: A … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Archaeology, classical architecture, Leon Krier, Preservation, Reconstruction, Roman Forum, Rome
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Rebuild the Roman Forum
Last October I described a master’s thesis on how to plan for a restoration of the Roman Forum – center of civic life in the capital of the Roman empire. The author, Eric Stalheim, was the first graduate of the … Continue reading
N.D. grad’s Rome restoration
Yesterday’s post, “Preservation at Notre Dame,” introduced readers to the new Master of Science in Historic Preservation at Notre Dame’s School of Architecture. The program’s inaugural graduate, Eric Stalheim, investigated, for his master’s thesis, the restoration of the Roman Forum … Continue reading
Own a free villa in Italy
Truly! Since not everyone is logged in to the roster of programmes gushing from Italy’s bureaucracy, such as it may be, check out this from the website Hyperallergic. Yes, Italy is giving away free castles, villas and other unused historic … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Preservation
Tagged Development, Hyperallergic, Italian Bureaucracy, Italy, Preservation, Rome, Slow Tourism, Tourism
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A lovely 3 minutes in Rome
Here is a video of Rome, with some clips from Pisa and Vatican City, sent to me by Big Geek Daddy. Actually, they sent a video of Barcelona, but it was marred by too much focus on special effects, though … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Video
Tagged Archaeology, art, Beauty, Big Geek Daddy, classical architecture, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Roman Ruins, Rome, Video
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