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Trajan's Hollow (Paperback)
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Trajan's Hollow (Paperback)
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Loot Price R552
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You Save R159 (22%)
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This publication documents Trajan's Hollow, a transformative
reproduction of Trajan's Column in Rome, to address issues of
critical importance in contemporary architectural practice: a
reconsideration of architectural poch (both programmatic and
material), the use of scale shift as a tool for transforming shape
and content, and the role of subversive reconstruction in an era of
digital scanning and replication. The publication offers an
alternative model for the close reading of historical artifacts
through an analysis of Trajan's Column and its material progeny,
including the casts and copies of the column produced over 2,000
years and contemporary reconstructions of the column executed by
the author while in residence at the American Academy in Rome.
Although this second-century monument located in the heart of Rome
has been the object of hundreds of years of study, Trajan's Hollow
uncovers aspects of the column curiously omitted amidst all this
attention, manifesting the lacunae in various paradigms of
historical inquiry: this work rereads the column and its legacy
through the simple act of prioritizing the embodied occupation of
its interior over the analysis of its exterior narrative frieze. By
focusing on traces of workmanship (chisel marks, seam lines, tool
dimensions), material attributes (provenance, behavior,
constraints, change in qualities over millennia), and the
experience of habitation (interior atmosphere, circulation,
functional details), the project develops an alternative
understanding of the historical artifact and of its role in
contemporary design.
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