ROME?S MILLENNIA OF ?MODERN RUINS?
BY ZACH MORTICE
Alexander Robinson’s model is made from modeling clay, cardboard, melted wax, chipboard, and bronze. Image courtesy Alexander Robinson.
More than 2,000 years of built history along the Tiber River in Rome speeds by in Alexander Robinson?s landscape model ?Feast of the Picturesque, Act X. Porto Ripetta, Tevere? and in videos Robinson made of the model, built in modeling clay, cardboard, melted wax, chipboard, and bronze.
Still photographs of the model as it advances through the ages combine to form the videos. Sometimes a tub of glue gets into a shot. And Robinson flits in and out of the making-of video like a wraith, cutting, gluing, and manipulating here and there. Robinson?s process makes clear that with 2,000 years of history on a site, a final, destined form is fiction. ?Feast? revels in the continuous churn. ?[It?s] telling a story about ways in which the river is authored by human and natural forces in this not-well-choreographed dance between the two,? Robinson says.
Robinson teaches landscape architecture at the University of Southern California, and his studio operates as the Office of Outdoor Research and the Landscape Morphologies Lab. He produced this work as a Rome Fellow and completed it in 2016. It took a month to build and photograph, and is presented in both isometric and section views.
The seven-plus-minute videos blend major moments in the site?s history, starting two millennia ago and progressing to the near future. They begin with...
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