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Dear Colleague - "GIAMBATTISTA NOLLI, IMAGO URBIS, AND ROME" We are pleased to announce the 2003 International Conference to be held at the Studium Urbis Research Center in Rome, Italy from May 31-June 2. The conference is organized by Dr. Allan Ceen and Michelle R. LaFoe, co-ordinated by the Studium Urbis Rome, and co-hosted by the American Academy in Rome. Conference information is available at http://www.studiumurbis.org/menu/conferences.html. Printed materials will soon be available and may be requested. Any questions may be directed to Dr. Allan Ceen ([log in to unmask]) or Michelle R. LaFoe ([log in to unmask]). Abstract submission deadline: November 1, 2002. Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Woodward Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography Emeritus, The University of Wisconsin Madison Editor, History of Cartography Series CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Although Giambattista Nolli’s contribution to art, architecture, and urban planning has often been overlooked in favor of his better-known colleagues from the 18 th century, Nolli’s work, in particular his 1748 Pianta Grande, continues to play a key role in the study of Rome and other cities. The focus of the conference will be Nolli’s work, his forebearers, and the people, architectural forms, and cities he influenced. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum to discuss and disseminate creative ideas on the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Giambattista Nolli and his 1748 plan-map of Rome. Of the major graphics experts of the late Settecento, Giambattista Nolli has been given less attention than his contemporaries and sometime collaborators Giambattista Piranesi and Giuseppe Vasi. Perhaps this is due to the fact that his reputation rests largely on his principal opus, the 1748 Nolli Plan (Pianta Grande di Roma). Often referred to as a ‘figure-ground’ plan by designers and architects, the plan is a depiction of the spatial continuum that constitutes the public city rather than being the standard representation of the city as isolated blocks and monuments. Nolli’s plan was the first to make the distinction between true north and magnetic north and was the first to distinguish ancient remains from contemporary buildings with graphic clarity. As a result, the Nolli Plan remained the model for nearly all the later maps of Rome until the 20th century and has greatly influenced designers, planners, artists, historians, educators, civic leaders, and architects. Piranesi and Vasi used the image as a source for their architectural views, as did Colin Rowe for his well-known Roma Interrotta Exhibition of 1978. Currently, the advancement of multimedia and digital technologies have allowed several inter-disciplinary educational research groups, such as at Cornell University and Princeton University, to employ the Nolli plan as a base for use with these technologies to approach instruction and learning in new ways that explore the rich contextual relationship of architecture and urban form in Rome. We invite contributions from practitioners, scholars, and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines: architecture, urban design, art & architectural history, cartography, landscape architecture, visual studies, computer imagery & applications, and Roman history, just to name a few. Abstracts can focus on completed design projects and/or historical research, or on projects in-progress. Papers and presentations in both Italian and English will be accepted. Papers presented will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which we aim to complete in early 2004. Themes that might be addressed include the following: The Nolli plan & urban form in Rome Predecessors to G. B. Nolli and precedents to his 1748 Plan of Rome History of urban cartography / topography in Rome The history & development of the ichnographic plan G. B. Nolli & his contemporaries The relationship of Nolli & Piranesi’s work 18th century printmaking in Rome Architectural view and mapmaking Prints and their relationship to developments in architecture and urban planning in Rome Ancient Roman ruins, 18th century archaeology, and visual representation Subsequent influence of Nolli on map making, design, and other works The role of the Nolli in the ‘Roma Interrotta’ 1978 Exhibition The Nolli Plan and the work of 20th century designers, architects, and planners Contemporary applications of the Nolli Plan Computer visualization, digital technology, and the Nolli plan Mapping Rome Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to M. LaFoe by November 1, 2002. Electronic submissions are preferred: [log in to unmask] Michelle R. LaFoe 5208 SE Lincoln St., Portland, OR. 97215 USA We will acknowledge all abstract submissions with an email confirmation. If you have not received this email confirmation within a week of submission, please contact M. LaFoe. _____________________________________________________ The Studium Urbis Research Center Architecture & Urban Planning in Rome Centro ricerca topografica di Roma Via di Montoro 24 – 00186 Rome, Italy (near Pza. Farnese) Dr. Allan Ceen, Director / direttore http://www.studiumurbis.org t: 06-686-1191 (Roma) _____________________________