Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

Elizabeth Merrill

Tenured Academic Staff
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Research Projects Elizabeth Merrill

Circularity and Re-use in Roman Building Culture from Antiquity to the 20th century

Re-used materials in the Severan restoration of the pediment of the Porticus of Octavia, Rome. Its now exposed pediment (invisible in Antiquity) can be seen to consist almost entirely of re-used architectural elements. Photo: Simon J. Barker.

An Architecture of Machines: Francesco di Giorgio’s Opusculum de’ architectura & the praxis of Renaissance architecture

Francesco di Giorgio, folio 2r, Opusculum de’ architectura (c. 1475) London, The British Museum, Nr. 1947,0117.2 © The Trustees of the British Museum