Architect
Guarino Guarini: the First ‘Baroque’ architect
In her contribution to the conference Guarino Guarini e l’internazionalità del barocco of 1968, silvia bordini presented a historical overview of the criticism of...
From old to new: the transformation of the Castle of...
Articulated with the neighbouring villages of ourém and Pombal, Porto de Mós played a strategic role in the defence of the important cities of...
Architecture and oblivion. The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan
The majority of the Mayan cities, including those of the Classical period (roughly 250–900 CE) were rather dispersed settlements, adapted to a lowland tropical...
Architecture and Utopia. The forbidden City
Since Thomas More used the word “utopia” to name the imaginary commonwealth that he devised somewhere in the middle of the sixteenth century, this...
Architecture and mathematics. The Alhambra
“As we walk into the Alhambra, I’m immediately struck by the reflective power of the water. It seems as though the palace is built...
Composition
An appreciation of composition is particularly important when drawing buildings and cities. The abstract nature of architecture means that sketches have to be well...
Line and shade
Sketching the outline of objects can lead to rather featureless and abstract drawing. Although one may recognise the shape of a house, its value...
Medieval Cities and Gothic Cathedrals
In the context of our neat and predictable world, we may find attractive what defies regularity and appears to be a product of procedures...
Fortified Palaces in Early Modern Sicily: Models, Image Strategy, Functions
In early modern sicily the extra-urban fortified residence was a limited but important architectural phenomenon. starting from the last decades of the fifteenth century,...
Architecture takes control. Inventing Interior Space
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, panoramas were particularly popular in large European cities. Panoramas were specially built circular halls, which received their...
