suz in rome



08 agosto 2006

116 EUR 2

A little more about EUR. It's definitely designed for the scale of the automobile and not of the pedestrian, I thought as I crossed yet another wiiiiiiiiide highway with no cars as the sun beat down on the asphalt.

The one bright spot I found was the church of guess-who... yup, Peter and Paul.


It reminds me of Otto Wagner's church in Vienna that I liked so much in 1999. Traditional geometry (cross in plan, central dome), but interpreted with a clean, modernist palette of materials. I especially liked the duality and symmetry of the statues of Peter and Paul in front of the church: each under his own tree.