ARCH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Socratic Dialogue
6 Oct 2015
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Giovanni battista piranesi; from opinions on architecture (1765) This reading is a socratic dialogue between protopiro and didascalo. Protopiro represents the classical rigorists-seeking to simplify and limit ornaments. This debate reflects the crisis of academic theory in the. Piranesi wrote it, he shifts from an archaeological argument into an architectural one. He"s against laugier and his reform minded rationalism. In the first part of the dialogue protopiro points of many abuses of contemporary practice- way to much reliance on ornamentation. It is madness that a few small cuts on stone or mortar should dictate the proportions of a building, or that all due requirements of the building should be sacrificed to them . Didascalo then concludes that if protoprio and lqugier had their way, everyone would be living in primitive huts.
