PIRANESI VARIATIONS

Location: 13th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Year: 2012

Invited by David Chipperfield to participate in the Biennale exhibition “Common Ground,” Peter Eisenman in turn asked Jeffrey Kipnis and Pier Vittorio Aureli to join him in an exploration of Piranesi’s seminal drawing, Campo Marzio (1762). The exhibition of models and drawings includes their three, very different contemporary interpretations of Campo Marzio and one projection of how Piranesi’s own drawing might have been built as a 3D model, designed by Yale architecture students.