The Studium Urbis opened in the fall of 2000 as a resource for creative ideas and sound design and scholarship regarding the history of architecture and urban planning in Italy. We encourage and facilitate collaborative and original research and design in architecture, urban & landscape planning, visual and topographical studies, and the history thereof in Rome and Italy. The center also strives to disseminate research results, workshop and conference opportunities to faculty, students, practicing professionals, leaders, policy-makers, and the general public.
The Studium Urbis is located in the heart of Rome on the Via di Montoro 24 (near Piazza Farnese and Piazza Navona), and it houses an exhibition gallery, workshop studio, and an extensive collection of reference resources. The resources include drawing and cartographic materials, view-maps and plan-maps of Rome (including G. B. Nolli), bibliographic and textual sources, and architectural exhibitions and their printed components.
The web site of the Studium Urbis is a digital extension of the studio's activities and includes information on Studium Urbis exhibitions, workshops, news & events, lectures, and research and writings on the history of urban planning in Rome and other cities in Italy, and links to other pertinent sites. The activities and exhibitions of the Studium Urbis have been digitized, arranged, and displayed so that anyone in the world connected to the internet can view the material. Because the internet allows for two-way communication, the Studium Urbis will invite its viewers to contribute their suggestions and comments in an effort to foster a public forum on the ideas presented. For more information, please contact us.
Upon special request, copies of the exhibition catalogues are available and are for educational purposes only. For further inquiry and pricing, please contact Allan Ceen, or call for an appointment (06 / 686-1191).
