Archescape
Subtitle: the Piranesi flights
By: Gijs Wallis de Vries, concept ; Manon Deijkers, Mieke van Herwijnen, Christian Hazeleger, Jorrit Klaver, research, design, and production of models
Contributors: Spuybroek, Lars, author; Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Publisher: 1001 Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9789038639352
Subjects: Exhibitions; Pictorial works; Architectural models
Description: Piranesi's Campo Marzio was never far from centre stage during the academic career of Gijs Wallis de Vries. It therefore comes as no surprise that after his doctoral dissertation on the subject appeared in 1990, an illustrated English version of his observations appears today. The way the project was interpreted 25 years ago has acquired a more haptic dimension in the form of three-dimensional models. An exhibition!00The project concerns the various kinds of spatial experiences that Wallis de Vries has identified and described in Piranesi's reconstruction of ancient Rome. He distinguishes two ways in which Piranesi added parts of a city that might have been to what was there as he found it: one concerns a classical way, and the other a modern way. Two manners of spatial tuning between architectural elements used for orchestrating an impression of styles and scales blending in various buildings. Piranesi imagined a splendid version of ancient Rome, its ruins and vestiges, as well as several preserved buildings, such as the Pantheon. Exhibition: TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (September 7, 2015 to October 3, 2015).
Notes: Texts by Gijs Wallis de Vries and Lars Spuybroek.

Catalog of an exhibition at the Plaza Vertigo, Technishe Universiteit Eindhoven, September 7, 2015 to October 3, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.