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Eros et Thanatos

Eros et Thanatos Ichnographia Campi Martii

Everything has its beginning and its end, its creation and its destruction, its alpha and its omega, its Eros and its Thanatos.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii is perhaps the greatest architectural plan ever drawn, and, through his large plan of ancient Rome's Campo Marzio, Piranesi delineates his architecturally unrivaled metabolic thinking.

The presence of life and death within the Ichnographia is not immediately evident however, and it is therefore no surprise that architects and architectural scholars have until now remained oblivious to Piranesi's metabolic design.

It is now the time, at the beginning of the 21st century and the dawn of the third millennium, to finally lay the oblivion surrounding the Ichnographia to rest, and join Piranesi on his axis of life.

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