26 November
248 birth of Eutropia
Piranesi/chronological order
Baroque chronology
digital data
2000.11.26
Re: Built for speed (architecture/design for transit)
2001.11.26 09:58
2001.11.26 15:42
Piranesi's Continual Double Theaters
Exercising New Dexterity
2001.11.26
Re: jy is alive
2002.11.26 10:58
"Adventures of the Great Isfahan"
2002.11.26 11:33
Briar Hill
2004.11.26
looks like the party's already starting
2004.11.26 08:46
My Architect on Cinemax
2004.11.26 13:53
Tresguerras, Tresham, Tribolo, Tudella
2006.11.26 15:21
Thanks Giving, A Native American View
2008.11.26 20:59
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Piranesi's Continual Double Theaters
2001.11.26
The subject of double theaters starts with Bernini's play--the Baroque ending for sure--and it is Piranesi that continues this Baroque design technique. Oddly, the double theater aspect of Piranesi's design methodology has yet to be recognized by designers or design theorists or critics.
A short list of Piranesian double theaters:
1. check for possible examples in the Prima Parte.
2. the two states of the Carceri.
3. Wilton-Ely's example of mirrored precedent for one of the Carceri.
4. the overall double--Pagan-Christian--narrative of the Ichnographia Campus Martius, with the Scenographia as the empty stage set.
5. the double directional Triumphal Way.
6. the axes of life and death.
7. the axes of love and war.
8. the Mars - St. Agnes axis.
9. the theatrics of satire--Horti Lucilliani.
10. the (literal) double theaters--Marcellus and Balbi.
11. the "circus act".
12. the back versus front of the altar.
13. the two sets of cochinae--is the snail its own double theater in that it self propagates, i.e., fulfills both sex roles individually? does this relate to the intercourse building?
14. the "rise and fall" (of Imperial Rome) as delineated by the two Busti.
15. it seems a case could be made regarding the working together of two mediums--plan delineations in combination with Latin labels.
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