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future

a new and separate metabolic imagination

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1994.11.30
Piranesi's imagination
One point that I very much want to make is that Piranesi stands at the head of a new and separate metabolic imagination. Piranesi, therefore, is not a forefather of modern architecture since I believe modern architecture (especially the International Style) is actually a product of the final stages of asimilation. Piranesi's importance in history is still yet to become realized in that metabolism and a metabolizing imagination are exactly what the future holds in store.

Discovery of the existence of two different versions of Piranesi's 'Pianta dell antico Foro Romano' within Le Antichità Romane Vol. 1 occurred around twenty past eight on the evening of 27 December 2019.

Circus Maximus

Pianta dell antico Foro Romano
Le Antichità Romane Tom. I tab. XLIII
from University of Cologne

Pianta dell antico Foro Romano
Le Antichità Romane Tom. I tab. XLIII
from University of Tokyo

This is the second time a heretofore unknown second state printing of a Giovanni Battista Piranesi work has been declared by Quondam. That the changes made to the Circus Maximus within the Pianta dell antico Foro Romano are virtually identical to the changes made to all the circuses within the two Ichnographia Campus Martius is obviously not mere coincidence. No doubt speculation and investigation now commences. Indeed, there is already circumstantial evidence pointing to Francesco Piranesi's possible involvement.

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