Villa Laurentine Leon Krier
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Hi all,
It's been a long time I wanted to model this work from Leon Krier. It is Plinus villa, supposed to be near Ostia, Italy.
Thanks to best-lemming for the ship.
C&C welcome.
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excellent image
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What was the source material for what this building looked like or would have looked like?
What were you working from and what was Krier working from? What is the chain of evidence?
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@alvis
Thanks.
@Roger:
Plinus the Young (61 -114 aft. J.-C.) describes in his well known ( at least for latinist) letter to Gallus, his Laurentum villa near Rome. This detailed description gave birth to numerous restitution trials since Renaissance.
In 1981 the French Institute of Architecture (IFA) launched a competition which object was the restitution of this villa. Leon Krier, one of the selected competitor, has been from the late 1970s onwards, but especially during the 1980s, one of the most influential neo-traditional or post modern architects and planners. His work in the US are Seaside and Windsor village in Florida. In Europe, Poundbury (England) Luxembourg city, Atlantis International cultural center in Canaria. He has been writing thirteen books amongst which are "Architecture: choice or fate", "Houses, Palaces, Cities"', "The Architecture of community". No need to say he his one of my master.
Statement for his work on Laurentine villa was that: "archeologia wich doesn't dare to rebuilt is only necrophilia and fetishism. Ruins cult isn't culturally acquired, it is a form of disrespect to the ancient. Ruins love is only the celebration of ruins imagination"
For this model I worked from documentation of the IFA and the masterplan included in "Architecture: choice or fate".
Hope I have answered to your questions.
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And just to know a little more about Leon Krier:
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3250
http://emergenturbanism.com/2009/12/29/leon-kriers-lesson-in-architecture/
and coming next tuesday:
http://www.dia.org/calendar/lecture.aspx?id=2945&iid= -
So, I take it that the actual site has never been discovered or documented in other than verbal description. I will have to scour the coastline on Google Earth.
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Well Roger, I am afraid the coastline has changed a lot in 2000 years.....
Two interesting entries I found googling:http://www.espr-archeologia.it/articles/35/Pliny-the-Youngers-Laurentinum
http://www.virginia.edu/president/kenanscholarship/work/archive_files/penley_chiang/Images/Villa/Pliny/Laurentinum%20Images.htm -
Great model and render, the water looks fantastic.
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Thanks John.
The Fresnel effect on water is quite easy to obtain in Artlantis. So thanks to the software!
Have a nice day
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