Rome is famous for its grand public architecture, like the greatest amphitheater ever built, the largest church in the world, and a Baroque fountain big enough to jump in. Size has mattered for ...

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is not an easy book, or so we were told by Vincent Scully in the introduction to Robert Venturi’s seminal 1966 publication. The book’s release is the stuff ...

A bronze sculpture by Italo Griselli, known under the Fascist regime as "Saluto Fascista" (Fascist Salute) and after the war renamed Genio dello Sport (Genius of Sport), stands at the entrance of a ...

In one of his last interviews, Vincent Scully claimed, “When you go abroad for the first time, most of your thoughts are about your home. Because you need to define yourself as you confront a very ...

After the publication of Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by the Museum of Modern Art in 1966, many of Venturi’s peers began to see his treatise as a liberation from the ...

Rome’s architecture is usually associated with famous buildings such as the Coliseum and St. Peter’s Basilica. However, professor Borden Painter of Trinity College spoke yesterday to an audience of 30 ...

In the exhibition “Search History” at the Maxxi National Museum in Rome, the architecture and art studio Space Popular examines the theoretical work of Aldo Rossi, among the most influential Italian ...

With one of the largest and most significant empires in history, the Romans ruled territories across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for more than a thousand years. Their legacy lives on ...

This course surveys the history and theory of Italian modern architecture covering the period that begins with G.B. Piranesi through to the present.

A new cohort of 35 artists and academics have joined the ranks of American creatives to be named as Rome Prize fellows by the American Academy in Rome (AAR). First established in 1894 under the ...