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colosseum_week 2_past (architecture (related to the forum: forum…
colosseum_week 2_past
architecture
romans had the first free standing structure with arches: two ampitheatres merged into one. vernacular was to terrace into the hils (greek form)
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related to the forum: forum documented as important to gladitorial combat (long thin shape), a natural 'squished elipsoid shape'
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spectator sport: catharsis. like public hanging. giving the people 'power' or agency in executions while also serving as a reminder.
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tension between italian and greek forms of the theatre. external treatment is quite marked: colosseum takes the greek order, not tuscan order. enshrines the roman identity.
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archway was a huge feet of construction and engineering. one of the first noted stadiums of the world
archways also helped deliniate class: seperate entrances, the shape allowed for the classes to be seperated even more. 'best seats' in centre, edge of elipse = 'worst seats'
theoretical perspective
civilization: instrumental reason
culture: specifics of expression. from totalitarian architecture to symbolic
presencing: the internal process of where people sit, how you even (in a bigger sense) go up or down the hierarchy
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to see and be seen: evolution of the polis, but still enforces the hierarchy
intermeshed: what HAPPENED in the colosseum (discurse) is arguable more important than the 'building'
discursive formation: observation. drawing, speaking, building.
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epistime
neo-platonic thought
no concept of the sign, microcosm mirroring macrocosm
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historical context
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68AD, device for control of the roman empire
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military
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liminal space for those in combat, a chance for a class jump?
site
centre of city, not on the outskirts
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aristocracy favoured, then the people (social distinction based on ideas of identity)
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