Mantua, Italy

​Upon completion of the Propositions studio, I had the opportunity to enroll in the Spring Travel Course, Scenography and Statecraft, lead by Brittany Utting and Daniel Jacobs and investigated architecture’s participation in the geopolitical scenography of the Italian Peninsula. In Mantua and later in the Vicenza, we visited the Palazzo del Te by Romano and Villa Rotunda and Villa Emo by Palladio, investigating the role of the villa as both an ideal object as well as a colonizing agent of the Italian countryside.