Rafael Moneo: Roman theatre museum, Cartagena, Spain.Originally built in the era of Emperor Augustus, some 2000 years ago, Cartagena's theatre was a typically impressive feat of Roman construction and engineering. An entire hillside Hillside may refer to: Places
adj. 1. Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented. 2. Flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner; flowery. stage building housed scenery and equipment for the presentation of elaborate spectacles spectacles /spec·ta·cles/ (spek´tah-k'ls) glasses. spec·ta·cles n. See glass. spectacles Opthalmology Glasses, gafas, occhiali, lunettes Vox populi A scene (spectacle) . By the sixteenth century, however, the theatre had been lost to fire and its remains built over. Well hidden by the passage of time, it lay undiscovered until the late 1980s, but since then the entire area has been investigated and restored in a major programme of archaeological excavation excavation In archaeology, the exposure, recording, and recovery of buried material remains. The techniques employed vary by the type of site, but all forms of archaeological excavation require great skill and careful preparation. and urban design coordinated by Rafael Moneo José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Moneo's new theatre museum is just one element in a project that stitches together the architecture of many different centuries, including the ruins of the cathedral of Cartagena, one of Spain's oldest churches, which also lies on the theatre site. The museum itself is a characteristic essay in elegance and restraint, nestling unobtrusively un·ob·tru·sive adj. Not undesirably noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous. un  ob·tru amid the dense urban texture of the city, yet clearly of its time. As well as the usual exhibition spaces, which prepare the ground for visits to the ancient remains, the museum forms a route up and through to the theatre site, reinstating its historic place in the urban realm. C. S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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