New into old

Mario Manieri Elia, renowned historian of Italian architecture, described the image of the Pantheon—resulting from the union of the marble front of a Greek temple and the concrete vaulted cylinder of Etrusco-Roman origin—as an embodiment of the idea of the Roman State, founded on the union between Greek culture and Roman technique. At least from this moment onward, architecture could no longer be reduced to a purely constructive problem: the design of spatial forms became a medium through which the values of collective life are communicated. It is also for this reason that the Pantheon stands among the most famous architecture in the world—an icon represented and narrated in its autonomous condition as an isolated monument... More