Architectural Studies in Europe https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:37:34 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 Pilgrim’s Map of Rome, c. 1330 https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/pilgrims-map-of-rome-c-1330/ https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/pilgrims-map-of-rome-c-1330/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2019 01:07:31 +0000 http://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/?p=2847 Paolino Veneto included a pilgrim’s map in his Chronologia Magna (c.1330)…

 

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See an interactive version of the map at the Campus Galli website, here.

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]]> https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/wrens-1666-plan-for-rebuilding-london/feed/ 0 Cerda’s 1859 Plan for Barcelona https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/cedras-1859-plan-for-barcelona/ https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/cedras-1859-plan-for-barcelona/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:35:08 +0000 http://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/?p=2807 In 1859 Cerda proposed…

 

 

]]> https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/cedras-1859-plan-for-barcelona/feed/ 0 Debord’s 1957 Psychogeographic Guide to Paris https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/debords-1957-psychogeographic-guide-to-paris/ https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/debords-1957-psychogeographic-guide-to-paris/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:30:35 +0000 http://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/?p=2805 Leader of the Situationist movement, Guy Debord created the Psychogeographic Guide to Paris by cutting apart a conventional map of Paris and reconstructing it as a collage with arrows.

 

]]> https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/debords-1957-psychogeographic-guide-to-paris/feed/ 0 Piranesi’s 1762 Campus Martius antiquae urbis https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/piranesis-1762-campus-martius-antiquae-urbis/ https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/piranesis-1762-campus-martius-antiquae-urbis/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:26:26 +0000 http://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/?p=2803 Dedicated to his friend the Scottish architect Robert Adam, who had arrived in Rome in 1755, Giovanni Piranesi’s enormous 1762 fold-out map or Rome appeared in his folio publication Campus Martius antiquae urbis.

 

]]> https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/piranesis-1762-campus-martius-antiquae-urbis/feed/ 0 Nolli Map https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/nolli-map/ https://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/reading/maps/nolli-map/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:12:22 +0000 http://architecturalstudies19.bjarman.sites.carleton.edu/?p=2799 Commissioned by Pope Bendict XIV and published in 1748, the “Nolli Map,” or Pianta Grande di Roma, created by Giambattista Nolli starting with surveying work begun in 1736, consists of a dozen large engravings. When fitted together these twelve prints measure nearly 6 feet by 8 feet. The map is the most famous example of figure-ground cartography, which distinguishes open space—including interior public spaces—from structural masses.

Read more about the Nolli Map and online digital mapping projects that make use of it in the article “A Digital Extension of a Roman Cartographic Classic: The 1748 Nolli Map and its Legacy” by James Tice in Journal18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, issue 5 Coordinates (Spring 2018).

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“The Medici Palace,” Associazione MUS.E Firenze (2010), 6 mins.:

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