2nd International Architecture Summer School in the Roman Forum / International Online Symposium

2nd International Architecture Summer School in the Roman Forum

International Online Symposium

Architecture and Archaeology: Connections and oppositions

18/6/2021 9:30-18:00 (GMT+2:00, Rome Time) / 10:30-19:00 (GMT+3:00, Istanbul Time)

ISAR ROME Aula Magna “Sedad Hakkı Eldem”

https://ozyegin-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/92708248389?pwd=T0wrditBM29JZDBNRWpoZG9ibjJuZz09

Meeting ID: 927 0824 8389 Passcode: 723883

Often architecture and archaeology are perceived as opposed disciplines, especially in recent years. Every time a modern architecture project is proposed within an archaeological site, an intense debate arises often ending up by impeding the construction. This opposition is one of the keywords for this symposium which will introduce the works of the second international summer school in the Roman forum. International students (some in presence and some online) guided by numerous tutors, will survey the Horrea Agrippiana and design a temporary socially distanced antiquarium therein for 10 days. The other keyword we proposed is connection. It seems like archaeology, which is indeed a modern discipline, is a daughter of architecture as it explores and excavates buildings that an architect designed and built some centuries ago. On the other hand architecture is a daughter of archaeology (or to better say of antiquarian studies) as most of the important architects have developed their skills by “seeing with their own eyes and measuring with their own hands the fragments of many ancient buildings”. Raphael, Peruzzi and Palladio, just to name a few within ancient history, but also Schinkel, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn more recently, developed their projects in strong connection with archaeology. So, which one was born first, architecture or archaeology? Should we really consider these disciplines as one against the other? These are some of the research questions that we will try to answer during the symposium.