As you see, we had a busy summer, travelling through Europe, we also reached Italy’s most beloved city, the everlasting Rome. There are thousands and thousands of words which were written about it, from ancient times until the recent present, you can find whatever information you want, you just have to google it, but we are going to show you a different view on its iconic architecture.
Being architecture students and travelling to Rome with our collegues and teachers, we spent the whole day just walking around town looking for the buildings we learnt about in school, searching for the images we had to draw during the exams and being mesmerized at every single corner by Rome’s magical atmosphere and enormous history. Looking through the amount of pictures we took there, we found a particular subject we enjoyed taking photos of and that were the amazing cloisters* and atriums** dating from the XII century up to the XXI century. From Bramante’s cloister from Santa Maria della Pace to Michelangelo’s cloister from Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, from Borromini’s atrium from Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza to the famous portico*** from the Mussolinian Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, every single one of them was absolutely fascinating.
Now, we will let you discover which photo is from which iconic building, meanwhile we will still remember the amazing feeling we had being there, being inside the architecture we read about in the magazines and history books. If you are interested in architecture, and we are sure you are, since you are reading this post, you have to visit Rome, because it is one of those once in a lifetime experiences. Enjoy!
cloister* = a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
atrium** = (in architecture) a large open air or skylight covered space surrounded by a building.
portico*** = is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
