The Politics of the Piazza

By Eamonn Canniffe
Publisher: Ashgate
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-07-23
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0754647161
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780754647164

Book Description:
Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian
cities, this book explores the relationship between political
systems and their methods of representation in architecture.
Illustrated by contemporary photographs, analytical drawings
and historic images, it examines approximately 70 significant
piazzas and situates these in their social and political
contexts, highlighting shifts between autocratic and democratic
forms of government from antiquity to the present day.It looks
at the ideological role of political architecture is analysed
through the work of various theorists including ancient sources
(Plato, Vitruvius, Augustine), Renaissance thinkers (Alberti,
Machiavelli, More) and modern critics (Zevi, Rossi, Tafuri).The
complexity of the physical layering of individual spaces over
time is represented by one single site in Travestere, Rome, where
its history is traced from ancient times to the present day.
Subsequent chapters then consider the development of Italian
urban form in chronological sequence, categorized by art
historical and political periods.

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