Category Archives: Rome

Card No.26

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Crompton

The full set so far

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Card No.32

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Sally Stone

Roma 1748, detail of Nolli’s map (700m across). No.32 in a series of thirty-two cards designed and produced in 2003 by Andrew Crompton as an enrolment gift for first-year architecture students at Manchester School of Architecture.

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Restaurant recommendation: ‘Da Ugo’ Rome

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Aventinus

Continuity in Architecture demands good food – the sketch was supplied by Robert Evans of Evans Vettori Architects, Matlock direct from this atmospheric Roman trattoria.

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Topography of Triumph

Posted on July 14, 2006 by Aventinus

The Italian Football Squad’s triumphant return to Rome as World Cup winners recalled the entries of previous victors into the city: It is indeed as if the war were still being fought, now for the benefit of the throngs crowding … Continue reading →

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Phases of the Porta Maggiore

Posted on May 25, 2006 by Aventinus

The Porta Maggiore is familiar today to many visitors to Rome from the view of its thick expressive plane from the elevated tracks of Stazione Termini. Constructed in the middle decades of the first century, the immediate context of the … Continue reading →

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Urban Advertorial

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Aventinus

Romeâ€™s population (residents, workers, tourists) has always been an audience, the target for certain forms of spectacle be they military, religious, cultural or commercial. To feed this audience, in recent decades the spectacular basis of urban photography has spawned the … Continue reading →

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