paris 2054
2006.04.29 10:20

I wonder if Giovanni Battista Piranesi would be in the movies if he were alive and working today. He's already virtually working there though, isn't he? His Carceri/Prisons may well have inspired more cinematics than we even know. But Piranesi had more than just a dark side. He even drew a whole city and delivered an astounding narrative within said drawing of a whole city--yes, drawing a whole city and 'writing' a story at the same time. (It's called Ichnographia Campi Martii.)

I love the product placement within this thread, by the way. That's kinda cinematic too these days.

Piranesi is currently in a couple of virtual novels, and in one of them he and Julian Abele and James Stirling deliver a paper entitled "The Pope's Funeral and Ichnographia Romaphilia. It turns out all three departed architects now love Roma and Philadelphia.

Julian Abele's birthday is tomorrow.

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