Muratorian school

This is the continuation of a previous post on Morphological Studies and Architectural History. The critical role of place and history is restored to architectural design by the Italian morphologists of the postwar period, most notably Saverio Muratori (1910–1973), a practitioner and professor at the University of Rome. He develops the method of procedural typology to provide a contextual tool for rebuilding and infilling in historic Italian sites. Procedural typology is heavily influenced by urban morphology. It departs from the Conzenian method in considering three-dimensional architectural form as developed simultaneously with the parcel patterns that enable it, as well as in positing the generation ofRead More →