Inverted Vedute
Travelers to Rome have recorded truthful and even fantastical topographic views of Rome for centuries. An important component of the Grand Tour, these vedute (literally: views) often framed the monuments of Rome. It has been noted that more than a few visitors to Rome were so taken by the vedute of Piranesi that they felt a little let down when they actually saw the real thing. In this exercise you are asked to look not at but from the monuments of Rome. As you wander around your new-found city try not to look as much at buildings but try to focus on the way in which buildings interact with their milieu.
Requirements: one image, 40 cm2
any media / collage / montage / multiple perspectives
250 word textual description of the milieu
How does the building change the way one views the city?
Assigned: 30 August 2010
Due: 09 September 2010
Website: http://vasi.uoregon.edu/
Visit: S Ignazio / Pantheon / Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta
Readings: Leatherbarrow, David. “Landings and Crossings.” and “Practically Primitive.” Architecture Otherwise. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
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Merleau Ponty, Maurice. “Film and the new Psychology.” Sense and Non-Sense trans. by Hubert Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
Merleau Ponty, Maurice. “Cezanne’s Doubt.” Sense and Non-Sense. Tr. Hubert Dreyfus & Patricia Allen Dreyfus, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964.