Friday, March 20, 2009

Flashback: 21.10.1998 - Notes on Split, Croatia

(notes from introductory lecture in Studio)

Split- with Diocletian's Palast untrennbar
Diocletian- zuerst einfach Soldat, then started leading battles, especially against Germanen: 285-305AD

Roman Empire had become so big- co-emperors:
Maximilian in West
Diocletian in East
-Roman baths

981021-notes-Split-1-a-Europe map

305AD- (?) - with Maximilian (Diocletian was the first Roman emperor to voluntarily abdicate the office)
-moved into his palace
seine Spuren bleibt in Split
981021-notes-Split-1-b-site map

(palace:)
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-organic form, BUT also as if a grid was laid over the land
-very precise orthogonality, going through palace

(Cardo and Decumanus):
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5. Jahrhundert- had doubled:
981021-notes-Split-1-d-5Jh

15. Jahrhundert- Venedig grossere oekonomische, Split war "gekauft", sehr schwache Stadt
-Festungen gehoeren Venedig
981021-notes-Split-1-e-15Jh

17. Jahrhundert- Spanien
-Napoleon took Greek concept- Mauern nicht mehr so wichtig
981021-notes-Split-2-a-17Jh

Heute- nach Napoleon, Oesterreich- Kaisertum
981021-notes-Split-2-b-heute

heute- 300 000 Bewohner
-Altstadt wird heute noch als___
-Altstadt ist klar, more spreads much further

progression is not linear from Roman times to today:
981021-notes-Split-2-c-changes

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