Carroll William Westfall is the Frank Montana Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture. He has written extensively on the history of the city with particular attention to the reciprocity between the political life and the urban and architectural elements that serve the needs of citizens.
All buildings are made out of other buildings or parts of buildings. An architect looking for precedents can look here. In seventeenth-century Rome, an architect had Rome’s buildings and the extensive Museo Cartacio (Paper Museum)—the modest dal Pozzo palace.
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Churches such as Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome that were built by adapting pagan Roman building practices served the early Christian community…