Calatrava's Guardrail: The Architectural Trail

It’s only a guardrail.   It runs up a seldom-used stairway from the first to the second floor of the new market in Testaccio.   Curving and ...

Del Debbio's hidden masterpiece - out-buildings at Foro Mussolini

A few years after restoration, still in need of TLC            Officine Farneto (“Farneto Offices”) is a recently restored out-building from...

Elegant but Not Ostentatious: A Favorite Fountain

Rome has hundreds of fountains, and every visitor has a favorite, or a few favorites.   One of mine is this gem of a drinking fountain (the ...

The Trieste Quarter: Home to Modernism and Postmodernism

The quartiere of Trieste, to the north of Rome's center, between via Salaria and via Nomentana, is best known to tourists and architectu...

Gio Ponti: Revived in Rome

Ponti in his famous armchair - at home, living "ala Ponti" Italian design can be art at its best, and found in unlikely places.   ...

The Station(s) at Tiburtina

The Tiburtina railroad station, the one near Piazza Bologna, was torn down about two years ago, and another took its place on November 28.  ...

Michael Graves: The Rome Connection

Graves's studio at the American Academy (#9) We've never met Michael Graves, the famous architect.  But we have had a close encounte...

Most Photographed Building in Rome: Palazzo di Fantozzi

We have no doubt that the most photographed building in Rome is the Coliseum.  But the building most often presented in the city's newsp...

Architecture is Back

A fascinating June show on Rome's architectural heritage at the Tempio di Adriano, due passi from the Pantheon, with contributions by f...

Centocelle: Rome's New Rochelle

We doubt that any of our readers have been to Centocelle, the mid-20th century suburb located about 7 km to the east of Rome's Centro, ...

Planning Rome's Future: Modern Art? Or Domus Aurea?

Michael Kimmelman’s story, “As Rome Modernizes, Its Past Quietly Crumbles” ( New York Times , July 7, 2010), is smart and full of ideas, fro...