Lecture 18: Baroque Rome - School of Architecture and Planning
Lecture 18: Baroque Rome - School of Architecture and Planning
Lecture 18: Baroque Rome - School of Architecture and Planning
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Significant<br />
issues:<br />
• Sixtus V (1585<br />
1590) –larger<br />
scale planning<br />
than any <strong>of</strong> his<br />
predecessors<br />
predecessors,<br />
• Planned<br />
straight,<br />
connecting<br />
streets between<br />
important<br />
church sites<br />
• The beginning<br />
<strong>of</strong> the “Gr<strong>and</strong><br />
M Manner” ” <strong>of</strong> f<br />
urban planning:<br />
vistas / axial<br />
connections / the<br />
“trivium”<br />
connection <strong>of</strong><br />
three roads at a<br />
center point…<br />
Giovanni Battista Nolli, Plan <strong>of</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> (1748)<br />
“Nolli” Map –showing figure/ground relationship <strong>of</strong> building mass to open<br />
space – <strong>Rome</strong> in the 17th space <strong>Rome</strong> in the 17 century century, the <strong>Baroque</strong> era<br />
Tomman<br />
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