Stairs that lead to nowhere
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tower with Bridges, from Prison Caprices. 1760-61. Etching, 55.2 x 41.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York I have always been fascinated with Piranesi’s Tower […]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tower with Bridges, from Prison Caprices. 1760-61. Etching, 55.2 x 41.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York I have always been fascinated with Piranesi’s Tower […]
I am reading The Exposed City Mapping the Urban Invisibles by Nadia Amoroso. Nadia Amoroso specialises in visual representation by using mapping strategies and reorganizes information and patterns found in architecture and […]
After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveller directed towards Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great […]