Por: Javier Sancho
Más bien dejándonos perder, porque Roma es simplemente espectacular. Cuna de tantas civilizaciones, la memoria se ha ido acumulando a base de estereotomías y tectónicas, reflejo del concepto espacial de cada época y autor. Nunca el material fue tan cómplice de un plano tan genial, donde a cada giro espera la sorpresa: una ruina o un templo, una piazza o una chiesa...
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Or maybe better, letting us get lost, cause Rome is amazing. Base of many civilizations, memories have been added with sternotomies and tectonics, spacial concepts here shown of each era and artist, Never the material was so guilty of such an awesome map, where each corner is open to our surprise: Ruins or temple, piazza or chiesa...
It´s always alive, romans, travelers, tourists, waiters, actors, small cars... Like Fellini dreams, going up Via Veneto, having a drink in Monti or eating fish in Trastevere.
There´s also place for new projects, like Renzo Piano office and the Theatre, or Zaha Hadid architects and Maxxi, always taking as a reference the good italian architects of mid-twentieth century, for example Nervi and the Palazzetto dello Sport dome...
Althoug, if we speak about domes or great things, there´s no doubt about a point which is over everything, stops our breathing and makes us feel ingravity: PANTEON is... I remember this time, I was just seeing the entrance, I listened a Spanish girl "why I am gonna get into, there´s nothing there"... Exact, that nothing is ALL. Such a pitty she didn´t discover it and fly through the space while the light falls down from the huge eye.
Of course thanks a lot to our good friend roman architect Alessio: without you, Rome would have lost lots of charm... and travertine.
Hasta luego b´aC Javi