Re-interpreting the Baroque Saunders Vertical Studio, Fall 2007 Rome Studio Saunders Vertical Studio students Student projects Museums Art museums Galleries The final studio project was to design a contemporary museum in the historical center of Rome. The museum is dedicated to the Counter-Reformation and focuses specifically on the Baroque art and architecture that was sponsored by this revival. The majority of the museum program is dedicated to galleries to exhibit drawings, models, and sculpture from the period as well as contemporary exhibition space. In addition, the museum has auxiliary program of lecture hall, library, administration, gift shop, garden, parking and typical utility spaces found in museums. In the end, each group developed a thesis on the Baroque stemming from the Hersey and Deleuze readings, site visits, earlier analysis, and scripting exercises. The thesis embodied how each project (1) understood and contemporized Baroque characteristics (2) intervened into the historical context of Rome (3) used scripting as a contemporary tool to develop strategies. School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007) Anderson, Chelsea Spangler, Brian Saunders, Andrew. Faculty 2007, Fall semester Digital Pdfs English Baroque; Baroque Revival; Counter Reformation; 21st century Rome, Italy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Re-interpreting the Baroque
Saunders Vertical Studio, Fall 2007 Rome Studio
Saunders Vertical Studio students
Student projects
Museums
Art museums
Galleries
The final studio project was to design a contemporary museum in the historical center of Rome. The museum is dedicated to the Counter-Reformation and focuses specifically on the Baroque art and architecture that was sponsored by this revival. The majority of the museum program is dedicated to galleries to exhibit drawings, models, and sculpture from the period as well as contemporary exhibition space. In addition, the museum has auxiliary program of lecture hall, library, administration, gift shop, garden, parking and typical utility spaces found in museums. In the end, each group developed a thesis on the Baroque stemming from the Hersey and Deleuze readings, site visits, earlier analysis, and scripting exercises. The thesis embodied how each project (1) understood and contemporized Baroque characteristics (2) intervened into the historical context of Rome (3) used scripting as a contemporary tool to develop strategies.
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007)
Anderson, Chelsea
Spangler, Brian
Saunders, Andrew. Faculty
2007, Fall semester
Digital
Pdfs
English
Baroque; Baroque Revival; Counter Reformation; 21st century
Rome, Italy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY