Beskrivelse
The talk unfolds around spolia, a Roman construction method that utilised antique building elements scavenged from ancient temples or marble warehouses to construct new structures. Graveyard stones, floor tiles, bases, capitals, shafts, entablatures, arches of different orders, materialities and colours were reused as structural elements and decorative pieces and carefully assembled in new building systems. Sometimes, whole buildings became palimpsests of historical processes. All those structures embraced embedded material diversities, elemental irregularities and dimensional variations, resulting in heterogenous aesthetics and multi-century construction continuities. The pragmatic but playful practices of appropriation show layers of urban development, reflecting on time, past histories, embedded memories, random quotations and collective authorship of buildings. This investigation of spolia could inspire other ways of building than the predominantly optimised architecture of current standardised times.The talk is a walk through six early Christian Roman churches: San Clemente, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Sant’ Agnese fuori le Mura, San Stefano Rotondo, Santa Maria in Aracoeli and the baptistery of San Giovanni in Laterano - examining spatial, elemental and material configurations of reuse.
| Periode | 6 jun. 2024 |
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| Sted for afholdelse | Aarhus Scooter Shop, Danmark |
| Grad af anerkendelse | National |