Modern Rome and Its Monuments

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This onsite course focuses on the vast transformations in the architecture and urban development of Rome 1870 to 1945, when the status of the city changed from papal capital to capital of Italy as a nation state. The course offers a view of the city that includes both grand public buildings, like the huge Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II at Piazza Venezia, and the Fascist era buildings of the EUR district, and investigation of particular urban characteristics. It will consider aspects like Romes experiments in social housing, the development of elite residential districts, the revelation of ancient monuments along wide new avenues of the Fascist era, as well as contemporary architectural additions to the citys monuments.