January 2006
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Preserving the Ruins of the Twentieth Century:...
Berlin
In 1738, a teenager named Giovanni Piranesi made his first visit to Rome. His father, a mason, had sent him there from their home in Venice to study architecture, but as he made his first stroll down the Via del Corso, he discovered his lifelong cause.
He found himself surrounded by vain, modern Romans, caught up in the sweep of commerce and politics and fashion and bureaucracy. They...
