Piranesi and his School. The invention of ancient
Tolve, Valerio
Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering; School of Architecture Urban Planning, Construction Engineering; Politecnico di Milano; Italy
Abstract:
Piranesi has indissolubly linked his work to Villa Adriana. His ‘Pianta delle fabbriche esistenti in Villa Adriana’ is both an accurate display of the importance of the Villa, through its main features - soil, ruins, hydrography, vegetation - an hypotesis of analytical restitution on the basis of evidence and new beginnings that precedes the awareness of reality and the evidence of it, therefore a premise for the interpretation.
It can be stated that Piranesi has contributed to the growth of modern and contemporary architecture through his work. He created a school of thought, by defining a genealogical descent from Palladio, Bramante and Raffaello (only to bring to mind some of them), continues with the Ecole des Beaux Arts (through the Prix de Rome) and keeps on going with the entire generation of the Modern Masters (Lewerentz, Le Corbusier, Kahn; without any suggestion of completeness) which during the 19th century have brought to life a process of critical revision of all values of classical tradition, following the self-study Voyage en Orient of corbuserian ispiration.
Therefore, it is tangible that the deeper value of tradition paradoxically matches the most essential aspect of modernity.
Our aim is to introduce several project experiences followed and conducted during the International Design Workshop and Master degree thesis, operating directly within Villa Adriana itself, which has been identified as the paradigm to carry out the thesis described above.
Keywords: Giovanbattista Piranesi; Villa Adriana; Architecture and archaelogy.