Miroslava Brooks, Brennan Buck, Joyce Hsiang, George Knight, Bimal Mendis
Summer 2016
Yale School of Architecture
This intensive five-week workshop takes place in Rome and is designed to provide an extended overview of the city’s major architectural sites, topography, and systems of urban organization. Examples from antiquity to the present day are studied as part of the context of an ever-changing capital with its sequence of layered accretions. The seminar examines historical continuity and change. We question the ways in which and the reasons why some elements and approaches were maintained over time and others abandoned. We devote the final week to an intensive, sustained, independent analysis of a proposed topic.
San Paolo Fuori le Mura.
We discuss. We don’t visit.
We compare it to those that we see, because it is different. It absolves the formulaic rules of orders.
Papal and grand. Maimed by fire. Varied elements were salvaged, maintained, abandoned, rebuilt, cobbled to produce a new synthetic normal.