Rome, 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. During our visit to Rome and the EUR district, we experienced the symbolic and archaeological tensions between the ancient Roman Empire and Mussolini’s Fascist state as well as the role in a city’s periphery in constructing a radical space for architecture.