Roma Interrotta (Rome Interrupted) (Illustrated Books Series) (Maxxi Architettura Collections) - Softcover

Piero Sartogo; Costantino Dardi; Antoine Grumbach; James Stirling; Paolo Portoghesi; Romaldo Giurgola; Robert Venturi; Colin Rowe; Michael Graves; Robert Krier; Aldo Rossi; Leon Krier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 886010047X ISBN 13: 9788860100474

Publisher: Johan & Levi Editore, 2015

Synopsis

In his 'Nuova Pianta di Roma' dated 1748, Giovanni Battista Nolli presented for the first time the Eternal City as a complete organism: divided into twelve tables, the plan reproduces all mechanisms of Rome, showing the external and internal 'spaces' created by removing the solid mass from built-up areas. Almost two hundred fifty years later, in 1978, the project Roma interrotta was conceived by Piero Sartogo and promoted by Incontri Internazionali d'Arte to show how every town planning impulse in Rome was blocked, the 'Pianta' by G.B. Nolli being proof of an interruption that was both culturally and politically motivated. Twelve leading international architects were invited to reflect on the possibility of something grand and lasting that would give an effective modernity and topicality to the Eternal City; a proposal to cancel centuries of inertia and property speculation and restart from the Nolli's plan as the 'last document of coherent urban design'.

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Projects and texts by the following architects: Piero Sartogo, Costantino Dardi, Antoine Grumbach, James Stirling, Paolo Portoghesi, Romaldo Giurgola, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Michael Graves, Leon Krier, Aldo Rossi, Robert Krier. Texts by Aaron Betsky, Graziella Lonardi, Architecht Piero Sartogo, Margherita Guccione.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johan & Levi Editore
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 886010047X
• ISBN 13: 9788860100474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228