The Tragic backdrop is the most formal of the three, constructed with a high degree of control along the edges of the street. An arch gateway with figures suggests a formal entry to the city along with an obelisk. Additional monuments in the background suggest both the surrounding landscape ...
Last fall,Harriet Pattison, Nathaniel’s mother, released a gorgeous new book,Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn.The 92-year-old Pattison has had a long and distinguished career as a landscape architect. She apprenticed with the legendary Dan Kiley in ...
In A.D. 37, Caligula, the emperor of Rome, moved the Obelisk from Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome to decorate the garden square beside the palace. The height of the obelisk was 25 meters, the bottom of the obelisk was 5 meters long on one side and weighed 320 tons. It is said that 900...