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, cartographic 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.

We are located in the heart of Rome on the Via di Montoro 24 (near Piazza Farnese and Piazza Navona). The Studio houses an exhibition gallery, classroom, and an extensive collection of reference resources. The resources include prints and cartographic materials, architectural view-maps and plan-maps (including G. B. Nolli), bibliographic and textual sources, and architectural exhibitions and their printed components. In the summer months, the studio entertains the requests from graduate students to be used as a base for their research in the fields of history of architecture, urban development and urban cartography.

In the fall and winter the studio holds monthly meetings of the group Ars Topographica. The group is made up of architects, historians, archeologists, and other professionals interested in different aspects of

the city of Rome. At each meeting one of their number briefly presents a subject or theme which is then discussed by the group.

In 2003 the studio helped launch the Premio Piranesi workshop on Villa Adriana, open to a number of Italian and American universities for students in architecture, archeology and museum design.
Premio Piranesi. In 2004 the studio participated as consultant in the formation of an interactive website hosted by the University of Oregon on the 1748 map of Rome by Giambattista Nolli. www.nolli.uoregon.edu

For further information, please contact us.

The Studium Urbis
Rome Research Center in Architecture and Urban Planning
Centro ricerca topografica di Roma
Via di Montoro 24 - 00186 Rome Italy
Tel. (06) 686-1191 (Rome)  -  (503) 223-3130 (usa contact)
http://www.studiumurbis.org