Shadows of Rome

"Rome is a city of shadows, where light in the blaze of noon shows the motionless present"
S. Holl

Campo de' Fiori

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"I first experienced manifest space in architecture, inside the Pantheon in Rome.
What I experienced, was not a conceptual space. Was truly space made manifest.
When this structure, with its simple geometrical order is lit by the light, introduced by an oculus 9 mt in diameter at the apex of the dome, architectural space truly is made manifest. This condition of matter and light can never be experenced in nature.
T. Ando

Santa Maria della Pace - Pietro da Cortona

"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms."

Le Corbusier

Chiostro di Santa Maria della Pace - Bramante

Area del Teatro Marcello

"Rome is a city where one could spend a lifetime in Pythagorean silence and still not know it"
J. W. Goethe