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G. B. Nolli, detail, La pianta grande, 1748. | | "Giambattista Nolli, Imago Urbis and Rome"
Conference / Convegno
Roma, 31 May - 3 June 2003
The Studium Urbis
Palazzo della Cancelleria
John Cabot University
FINAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday 30 May
THE STUDIUM URBIS
Via di Montoro 24 (nr. Piazza Farnese)
16.30-19.00
Sign-in, registration, and open house
Saturday 31 May
SALA DEI CENTO GIORNI
PALAZZO DELLA CANCELLERIA
Piazza della Cancelleria (Campo de' Fiori)
Morning
9.00
Welcome
Michelle LaFoe and Allan Ceen, Conference Coordinators
Presentation
How the Modern Republication of the Nolli Plan Came To Be
J. H. Aronson, Designer & Graphic Artist
Keynote Address
Revealing the City: Issues in the History of Urban Cartography
Dr. David Woodward
Editor, History of Cartography Series
Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography Emeritus,The University of Wisconsin Madison
brief pause
11.15
Session I: Nolli's Antecedents
Moderator: Allan Ceen, The Pennsylvania State University; Director, The Studium Urbis
The Forma Urbis and Antiquarians before Nolli
William Stenhouse, Yeshiva College New York
A Taste for Ichnographic Representation: The Bufalini Plan of 1551 and its Renaissance Predecessors
Jessica E. Maier, Columbia University; Fellow, The American Academy 2003-04
Leonardo Bufalini's 1551 Plan of Rome and its 'Surveying Accuracy' (or not), Paul Schlapobersky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Afternoon
15.00
Session I con't.
In What Sense a Map: 16th Century Documentation of Ancient Rome
Ann C. Huppert, The University of Kansas
Leonardo, Raphael and Painterly Influences on the Development of Ichnography
Ian Verstegen, Ursinus College
The Bonsignori Map of Florence as Rhetorical Instrument: Mapping an Illusory 16th Century Urbanity
Adam Drisin, The University of Tennessee
Evening
18.00-19.30
Reception: Campidoglio
Caffč of the Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio
(Entrance on Via del Monte Tarpeo)
Sunday 1 June
JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM
Via della Lungara 233 (Trastevere)
Morning
9.00
Session II: Nolli and 18th Century Contemporaries
Moderator: Kristin Triff, Trinity College
Giuseppe Vasi's Panorama of Rome: the Perilous Politics of Topographical Printmaking
John E. Moore, Smith College
Narrative Structures: The Nolli Plan and the Roman Experience
Elsa Lam, McGill University
La Sinopia Topografica dell'Antica Forma Urbis nella Pianta di Roma del 1748, Piero Meogrossi, Il Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Roma
The Grande Pianta of G.B. Nolli as an Instrument of Urban Analysis
Allan Ceen, The Pennsylvania State University; Director, The Studium Urbis
Afternoon
14.30
Session III: The Nolli Plan: Cartography & Urban Reconstruction in Rome
Moderator: Alessandro Camiz, Universitą La Sapienza Roma
Dynamic Fluids: Mapping the Water Infrastructure of Baroque Rome
Katherine Rinne, Iowa State University
Houses Without Names: Using the Nolli Plan to Discover the Origins of a Renaissance Vernacular in Rome
Richard Betts, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mapping Jews: Cartography and Topograpy in Rome's Ghetto
Samuel Gruber, Syracuse University
Theatri Figura quae Tempore Mutat: An Ichnographic History of Pompey's Theater
Kristin Triff, Trinity College
16.45
pause: Nolli Site Visit to S. Dorotea in Trastevere
17.30
Session IV: The Nolli Plan: Its Influence on Other Cities
Moderator: Richard Betts, The University of Illinois
The Nolli Plan and Urban Form in Genoa
Kay Bea Jones, Ohio State University
Propagandizing Nolli in Naples: The Duca di Noja Map
Robin L. Thomas, Columbia University
A Baroque City? London after the Great Fire of 1666
Lydia M. Soo, The University of Michigan
Monday 2 June
JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM
Via della Lungara 233 (Trastevere)
Morning
9.00
Session V: Current Nolli Computer Applications
Moderator: Michelle LaFoe, Architect, Artist and Conference Coordinator
Nolli, Bufalini and a Reconstruction of the Borgo in Early Sixteenth Century Rome
Henry Dietrich Fernandez, The Rhode Island School of Design
The Micro-Urbanism of Rome: Paul Marie Letarouilly's Architectural Drawings in the Context of Giambattista Nolli's City Plan
James Tice, The University of Oregon
The Layers of Rome CD-ROM as a Digital Guidebook: The Use of the 1748 Nolli Plan in a Digital Format
Roger Trancik, FASLA, Cornell University
The Nolli Database: Strategies for Teaching the History of Architecture and Urbanism
Kirk D. Alexander, Princeton University
Afternoon
14.30
Session VI: Nolli's Influence on 20th Century Design
Moderator: Allan Ceen, The Pennsylvania University; Director, The Studium Urbis
Re-Collecting Rome: A Diachronic Guide to the City
Nichole Wiedemann, The University of Texas at Austin
The Nolli Plan as a Palimpsest for Creative Urban Design
Alessandro Camiz, Universitą La Sapienza Roma
Piante Americana: Influences of Nolli's Plan on Two Contemporary Architects in America
Susan Ingham, Architect and Instructor
brief pause
Nolli, Roma Interrotta and the Monte Celio: A New Proposal Based on Past Lessons
Kevin Hinders, The University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Roma ininterrotta
Antonio Saggio, Universitą La Sapienza Roma
Evening
18.30-20.00
Reception at The Studium Urbis
Tuesday 3 June
Morning
9.00-12.00
Nolli Sites Walking Tour:
Calcografia Nazionale
Meet at Via della Stamperia 6, at the entrance of the Calcografia, the repository for Nolli's, Piranesi's and Vasi's etched copper plates.
After visiting this the group will walk to:
Palazzo Venezia
Biblioteca dell'Istituto di Archeologia e di Storia dell'Arte, repository for Nolli's original drawing for the Grande Pianta
Afternoon
15.50
The American Academy in Rome
Presentation
THE PIRANESI PROJECT: A Stratigraphy of Views of Rome
Randolph Langenbach, Fellow, The American Academy
Meet at Via Angelo Masina 5, the entry gate of the Academy
(please be prompt - the group must enter the Academy grounds together)
Evenings of 30 May - 3 June 2003
(thereafter by appointment)
Conference Exhibition:
Roma Nolliana
The Studium Urbis, Via di Montoro 24
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