9/9/2023 0 Comments Piranesi drawings analyzed![]() Piranesi is not the much-longed-for sequel although slimmer and quieter than Jonathan Strange, it is equally inventive, immersive and hard to pin down. “It all seemed so long ago and far away, like something that happened to somebody else.” I found Lewis at a very impressionable age and then he sort of organised the inside of my head Susanna Clarke “I’d really ceased to think of myself as a writer,” she says. “Sometimes I would feel that life stretched ahead but it was kind of blank and that was quite frightening.”Īn invitation on to the set of the BBC miniseries for Jonathan Strange in 2015 gave her the boost to start writing again. She was eventually diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, which at its worst left her housebound and depressed. “Having written about a woman with a 19th-century illness I then seemed to fall prey to a 19th-century illness myself,” she says. Six months after the publication of Jonathan Strange in 2004, when she was 44, she passed out at a dinner party and hasn’t been well since. ![]() “We arrived back at the hotel and we just drank camomile tea and flopped.”Īs she explained in a tearful acceptance speech, this was a book she thought she would never be able to write. But not for Clarke the traditional bleary-eyed morning-after interview. I haven’t processed it at all,” the author says from a hotel room in London, after the ceremony (one of the first post-lockdown publishing bashes) the previous evening. In addition, Gucker-Kanter, Quintana, and recent YSoA graduates David Bench (M.Arch ’12) and Can Bui (M.Arch ’12) helped prepare the exhibit for presentation in Venice.An otherworldly study of solitude, celebrating everyday consolations and the comfort of nature, Piranesi appeared with uncanny timing just as we were beginning to emerge from a period of all too real isolation. The participating students are Daisy Ames, Adrienne Brown, Aaron Dresben, Caitlin Gucker-Kanter, Nicholas Kehagias, Amy Kessler, Ollie Nieuwland-Zlotnicki, Talia Pinto-Handler, Otilia Pupezeanu, Teo Quintana, Aaron Schiller, and Melissa Shin - all M.Arch ’13. Each revisits Piranesi’s etchings, proposing answers to the inherent questions they raise about the relationship of architecture to ground, following the theme of “Common Ground.”Īccompanied by the students’ study of Piranesi’s architectural inventions, the work will be on display in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini in Venice, Italy for the duration of the biennale. Titled “The Piranesi Variations,” this multipart endeavor focuses on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 “Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma,” a folio of six etchings that depict his fantastical vision of what ancient Rome might have looked like, derived from years of archaeological and architectural research.Įach of the models created for this exhibition is 8 x 10 feet at its base - double the size of the folio. With access to Piranesi’s original folio, housed in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Eisenman’s students “re-invented” Piranesi’s Rome as a detailed gold-painted 3D-printed model at the scale of the original etching - the first of its kind. The director of the Biennale, Sir David Chipperfield, invited the internationally renowned architect and theorist Eisenman to propose a project for the Central Pavilion at the Venice exhibition, which this year is organized around the theme “Common Ground.” Eisenman, in turn, invited his Yale students to contribute the historical analysis produced in the seminar as a platform for three contemporary interpretations of Piranesi’s drawing - one from Eisenman’s own New York office, Eisenman Architects a second from the architecture critic Jeffrey Kipnis of Ohio State University and a third from architect Pier Vittorio Aureli of the Belgian office DOGMA, who will be joining the YSoA faculty in spring 2013. Stern has been chosen to chair the prize jury for the exhibition (see story), while Eisenman, the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at Yale, and students from his second-year spring seminar are exhibiting a project that provides a new dimension, literally, to a landmark work by 18 th-century engraver, mapmaker, and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) Stern, professor Peter Eisenman, critic Matthew Roman, and 14 of their students - have a prominent presence at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, which runs through Nov 25. Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) - represented by Dean Robert A.M. ![]() The students' creation will be on display in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini in Venice, Italy for the duration of the biennale.
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