Article by Noemi Mafrici
A forgotten architectural scenario.The removal of the Regent's Quadrant colonnade in 1848
Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane Sibiu, 2020
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The removal of the colonnade of the Regent’s Quadrant not even thirty years after its construction is a critical matter within the architectural history of Regent Street and the social history of London as well. The Quadrant is the most known part of the street for its impressive architectural features and its peculiar shape. The original design was by John Nash, architect responsible for the improvement of the whole street and the development of Regent’s Park. Starting from 1848 and during the last two centuries, the street suffered several changes that hugely modified its architectural design. The paper discusses the chronology of the Quadrant, focusing at the years that led to the first transformation of the street. The contribution investigates this demolition and the motivations that led to it, through an analysis with sources that belong to the history of the city, among which correspondence of inhabitants, private petitions, newspapers and architectural sketches.
The study looks at the subject not only from an authorial point of view but also from the city perspective with all the social and cultural implications. It argues forms of organisation of people and their role in urban matters, examining the formation and interest of an association involved in the process of demolition of the colonnade. Finally, an analysis of the reconstruction of the image of the Quadrant, before and after its modifications, both part of London urban memory.
Atti e Rassegna Tecnica della Società degli Ingegneri e degli Architetti in Torino, 2020
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
The paper describes part of the conceptual structure produced within the still ongoing project B.... more The paper describes part of the conceptual structure produced within the still ongoing project B.A.C.K. TO T.H.E. F.U.T.U.RE. (BIM Acquisition as Cultural Key TO Transfer Heritage of ancient Egypt For many Uses To many Users REplayed). The aim of the project was to use a semantic web infrastructure to describe archival research and tracking informations related to a hidden museum collection 'expedition models of Egyptian architecture' partially stored in the depots of the Museo Egizio of Turin. The outcome will be an interactive web-presentation portal of high-resolution 3D models enriched by historical and archival set of content, from the digitization procedure applied to collection objects, to the digitization process of related data and information. The development of the collection documentation of the project illustrates how is crucial to declare the semantic description underlying narrative contents. Data about single collection objects were conceptually modelled using generalizable formulas already known by CIDOC-CRM community. The description of provenance of knowledge related to the historical investigation process was modelled using CRMinf extension, exploring the possibility of making beliefs based on the available documentation and validating the results of the assumptions made during the research.
DISEGNARECON, 2019
The paper presents the fi nal outcome of a project carried out through the collabora on between P... more The paper presents the fi nal outcome of a project carried out through the collabora on between Poli-tecnico di Torino and Museo Egizio of Turin. The main aim of the project has been to make available a small series of artefacts that are part of the museum collec on through their virtual reproduc on. The research inves gates procedures that are used for the dissemina on of cultural heritage in museum context. This prac ces and the use of media and the web for dissemina on purposes became part of a contemporary digital ecosystem that involves heritage ins tu ons and museums. The paper describes the workfl ows used to develop diff erent kind of outputs using the same content, and how it is possible to reuse digital resources for the communica on and the visua-lisa on of cultural heritage in an a rac ve way through the use of the latest visualisa on technologies and web applica ons. The fi nal stage of the proposed research, in ad-Keywords: Collec on Informa on Modeling; Virtual Reality ; Immersive experience; Museum collec on; Egypt di on to the others already developed solu on, consists on an edutainment web applica on that assists the user in the discovery of historical ico-nography associated with digital models, with the intent to educate on the understanding of the drawn space and to visualise some contents of the Museo Egizio of Turin: the 'Expedi on models of Egyp an Architecture'. The digital ecosystem developed for the project consists on a set of digital data of historical docu-menta on and the digital replica of the museum collec on: a set of wood maque es represen ng ancient Egyp an buildings. The task, carried out in collabora on with the VHLab, CNR ISPC (Is tuto di Scienze del Patrimo-nio Culturale), allows to narrate the mee ng of two diff erent cultures, cultural ins tu ons and science of representa on, crea ng a new reasoned storytelling. Architecture and Design DAD since 2018. PhD in Architecture, her interests are related to the disciplines of drawing, survey and representation of architecture. She investigates on the use of ontologies, semantics and BIM platforms to manage cultural heritage.
Atti e Rassegna Tecnica della Società degli Ingegneri e degli Architetti in Torino, 2017
L’Esposizione di Torino del 1928 ha costituito un momento fondamentale nella cultura architettoni... more L’Esposizione di Torino del 1928 ha costituito un momento fondamentale nella cultura architettonica sia locale, sia nazionale, e il Parco del Valentino ha rappresentato il luogo dove molte nuove idee vennero sperimentate. A quarant’anni dalla “scomparsa” dell’archivio privato di Giuseppe Pagano, figura centrale dell’Esposizione, l’articolo propone gli esiti di una ricerca che ha consentito di ricreare tramite rappresentazioni 2D, 3D e in realtà virtuale i padiglioni progettati dall’architetto e gli edifici costruiti sotto
la sua direzione dell’Ufficio Tecnico dell’Esposizione. Le ricostruzioni si sono basate su fonti diverse, che hanno permesso di ricostruire la storia e gli sviluppi dell’Esposizione. L’articolo mette in evidenza soprattutto gli aspetti metodologici di tale trasposizione tridimensionale, discutendo come l’eterogeneità della documentazione e l’incrocio dei dati porti a ottenere informazioni a volte contrastanti.
The Exhibition of 1928 in Turin was a fundamental time for the local and Italian culture, and the Valentino Park has been the space where several new ideas were experimented. After forty years since the “missing” of the personal archive of Giuseppe Pagano, leading architect of the Exhibition, the article shows the outcomes of a research, that allowed to recreate through 2D, 3D and in virtual reality the pavilions designed by Pagano and the buildings built under his direction of the Technical Office of the Exhibition. Beyond the original designs of the architect, the reconstructions have been based on several other sources, that led to the reconstruction of the history and of the events of the Exhibition to the recreation of the buildings. The article stresses especially methodological aspects of the digitisation discussing how the eterogeneity of the documentation and the crossing of the data led sometimes to conflicting information.
Atti e Rassegna Tecnica della Società degli Ingegneri e degli Architetti in Torino, 2017
Considerazioni a chiusura della Summer School su Cultural Heritage in Context. Digital Nubia, che... more Considerazioni a chiusura della Summer School su Cultural Heritage in Context. Digital Nubia, che nasce dalla collaborazione internazionale fra il Politecnico di Torino e UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) con l’obiettivo di studiare e ricreare con metodologie delle digital humanities il patrimonio culturale nubiano oggetto della campagna di salvataggio UNESCO degli anni sessanta.
The paper suggests some considerations about the Summer School Cultural Heritage in Context. Digital Nubia, within the program of the international collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). The school focused on the analysis and recreation, through the methodologies of the digital humanities, of the Nubian Cultural Heritage that was at the centre of the UNESCO rescue campaign in the 1960s.
Thesis Chapters by Noemi Mafrici
Planning a Monumental London in the Early Nineteenth Century. Projects, administrative machine, time and people around Regent Street
Doctoral Thesis, PhD in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, Politecnico di Torino, 2018
The thesis is on the transformation of Regent Street in London in the early nineteenth century. R... more The thesis is on the transformation of Regent Street in London in the early nineteenth century. Regent Street was conceived within the London Metropolitan Improvements, and its design and execution are considered a different model from every other street. Within its history, Regent Street suffered several transformations, adjustments and at last complete rebuilding. Currently, even if the street has been completely rebuilt, the original Regent Street perspectives left a sign that remains not only in the plan but also in the image and the imaginary of the city as part of Cultural Heritage.
In this research, the street is studied in the context of several proposals and ideas of improvements. The study looks to the new and to the old city. The new project enlightens also some aspects of the old city thanks to the kind of sources written and illustrated produced. It enlightens the process of construction by surveying the procedures and the pre-existing conditions. The study discusses time, causes and events that from an idea of project led to a demolition. Finally, it also aims to discuss if this interruption represents a fail within the project.
Some questions still remained open by the published literature. The thesis, through the discovery of new documentation by the author, aims first to enlighten the conceiving and constructing processes of Regent Street. It also aims to study the relationships between the project of John Nash and the other projects, the receiving of the street and issues and matters after its construction. Therefore, the most emblematic part of Nash’s project, the Regent’s Quadrant, had never been a specific object of study before. Thanks to an unpublished sketch by hand of Nash found during this research, new inputs emerges in order to understand the peculiar shape of the Regent’s Quadrant. Another corpus of unpublished documents, related to the modifications to the original project of the street, has been found during this research in the archives, then dated and contextualized by the author in order to create a new chronology of the street building site.
Papers by Noemi Mafrici
浅谈中小学 多网合一 校园网的管理和维护
教育信息技术, 2011
London Tradescape Facciate Vetrine e Negozianti DI Regent Street Nell Ottocento
FedOA - Federico II University Press, 2018
Durante il decennio di reggenza del futuro Giorgio IV, a Londra viene progettata Regent Street, a... more Durante il decennio di reggenza del futuro Giorgio IV, a Londra viene progettata Regent Street, arteria modello del commercio dell'impero. L'intervento studia il tradescape formatosi, attraverso le fonti dell'iconografia urbana e considerandone le modificazioni subite negli anni seguenti la sua realizzazione. In particolare, viene analizzato il ruolo delle attività commerciali, attraverso le facciate e le vetrine disegnate ad hoc durante il cantiere della strada e utilizzate poi come strumento di immagine della capitale. During the decade of Regency of George IV, Regent Street, the commerciai thoroughfare of the Empire, was designed in London. The paper analyses the tradescape of the street, through iconographical sources of the city, considering a/so the street's modifications within the century. Particularly, the role of the stores is studied, through the facades and the shopwindows designed only during the street building site and used then as a mean of the new image of the city by the Crown.
Presenting Present London in Early 19th Century to Foreigners through Architectural Panoramas
In the early 19th century, the city of London was a spreading city, with some relevant new buildi... more In the early 19th century, the city of London was a spreading city, with some relevant new buildings. City with monuments was generally represented and communicated through drawing and engravings. Just before photography, the urban landscape started to emerge as focus of the representation, and streets became a main subject. In the first decades of the century indeed, important urban changes were introduced in London by the Regency, in particular by the construction of Regent Street, the new commercial thoroughfare. The paper wants to investigate how the new London urban landscape of early 19th century was told in architectural panoramas, paying specific attention to the contemporary city. The publishing of these views of London had to be intended also as a means to travellers and for travelling. In particular the paper focuses on the case of the panoramic overview ‘Tallis's London Street Views' that was openly ‘intended to Assist Strangers Visiting the Metropolis through al...
Paesaggio Culturale e Digitale. Considerazioni a margine della Summer School 'Cultural Heritage in Context. Digital Nubia
Towards a phygital heritage approach for museum collection
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
The paper describes part of the conceptual structure produced within the still ongoing project B.... more The paper describes part of the conceptual structure produced within the still ongoing project B.A.C.K. TO T.H.E. F.U.T.U.RE. (BIM Acquisition as Cultural Key TO Transfer Heritage of ancient Egypt For many Uses To many Users REplayed). The aim of the project was to use a semantic web infrastructure to describe archival research and tracking informations related to a hidden museum collection 'expedition models of Egyptian architecture' partially stored in the depots of the Museo Egizio of Turin. The outcome will be an interactive web-presentation portal of high-resolution 3D models enriched by historical and archival set of content, from the digitization procedure applied to collection objects, to the digitization process of related data and information. The development of the collection documentation of the project illustrates how is crucial to declare the semantic description underlying narrative contents. Data about single collection objects were conceptually modelled using generalizable formulas already known by CIDOC-CRM community. The description of provenance of knowledge related to the historical investigation process was modelled using CRMinf extension, exploring the possibility of making beliefs based on the available documentation and validating the results of the assumptions made during the research.
The Exhibition of 1928 in Turin and its Digital Context
The Italian National Exhibition held in Turin in 1928 was a temporary but significant event in th... more The Italian National Exhibition held in Turin in 1928 was a temporary but significant event in the history of the city. The paper focuses on the reconstruction of its architectural and cultural context through a multidisciplinary approach as research training for a thesis. The research looks at the event as a part of the urban history connecting the spatial transformations of the area during the exhibition with the city's changes at that time. The hypermedial platform links the visualization of the architecture of the exhibition to the relationships with more projects built or discussed in Turin in the same period as well as to a range of other subjects and protagonists of the cultural debate. The 3D modelling of the area recreates the pavilions built of some relevant architects, particularly Giuseppe Pagano. Although the difficulties and complexity of visualizing some elements based on incomplete historical sources, the virtual reconstruction is an important support to better u...
Interactive Digital Environments for Cultural Heritage and Museums. Building a digital ecosystem to display hidden collections
The paper presents the final outcome of a project carried out through the collaboration between P... more The paper presents the final outcome of a project carried out through the collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and Museo Egizio of Turin. The main aim of the project has been to make available a small series of artefacts that are part of the museum collection through their virtual reproduction. The research investigates procedures that are used for the dissemination of cultural heritage in museum context. This practices and the use of media and the web for dissemination purposes became part of a contemporary digital ecosystem that involves heritage institutions and museums. The paper describes the workflows used to develop different kind of outputs using the same content, and how it is possible to reuse digital resources for the communication and the visualisation of cultural heritage in an attractive way through the use of the latest visualisation technologies and web applications. The final stage of the proposed research, in addition to the others already developed solution...
Fonti storiche e prodotti digitali. Il caso dell’Esposizione del 1928 a Torino
L’Esposizione di Torino del 1928 ha costituito un momento fondamentale nella cultura architettoni... more L’Esposizione di Torino del 1928 ha costituito un momento fondamentale nella cultura architettonica sia locale, sia nazionale, e il Parco del Valentino ha rappresentato il luogo dove molte nuove idee vennero sperimentate. A quarant’anni dalla “scomparsa” dell’archivio privato di Giuseppe Pagano, figura centrale dell’Esposizione, l’articolo propone gli esiti di una ricerca che ha consentito di ricreare tramite rappresentazioni 2D, 3D e in realtà virtuale i padiglioni progettati dall’architetto e gli edifici costruiti sotto la sua direzione dell’Ufficio Tecnico dell’Esposizione. Le ricostruzioni si sono basate su fonti diverse, che hanno permesso di ricostruire la storia e gli sviluppi dell’Esposizione. L’articolo mette in evidenza soprattutto gli aspetti metodologici di tale trasposizione tridimensionale, discutendo come l’eterogeneità della documentazione e l’incrocio dei dati porti a ottenere informazioni a volte contrastanti. The Exhibition of 1928 in Turin was a fundamental time for the local and Italian culture, and the Valentino Park has been the space where several new ideas were experimented. After forty years since the “missing” of the personal archive of Giuseppe Pagano, leading architect of the Exhibition, the article shows the outcomes of a research, that allowed to recreate through 2D, 3D and in virtual reality the pavilions designed by Pagano and the buildings built under his direction of the Technical Office of the Exhibition. Beyond the original designs of the architect, the reconstructions have been based on several other sources, that led to the reconstruction of the history and of the events of the Exhibition to the recreation of the buildings. The article stresses especially methodological aspects of the digitisation discussing how the eterogeneity of the documentation and the crossing of the data led sometimes to conflicting information.
Planning a Monumental London in the Early Nineteenth Century. Projects, administrative machine, time and people around Regent Street
The thesis is on the transformation of Regent Street in London in the early nineteenth century. R... more The thesis is on the transformation of Regent Street in London in the early nineteenth century. Regent Street was conceived within the London Metropolitan Improvements, and its design and execution are considered a different model from every other street. Within its history, Regent Street suffered several transformations, adjustments and at last complete rebuilding. Currently, even if the street has been completely rebuilt, the original Regent Street perspectives left a sign that remains not only in the plan but also in the image and the imaginary of the city as part of Cultural Heritage. In this research, the street is studied in the context of several proposals and ideas of improvements. The study looks to the new and to the old city. The new project enlightens also some aspects of the old city thanks to the kind of sources written and illustrated produced. It enlightens the process of construction by surveying the procedures and the pre-existing conditions. The study discusses time, causes and events that from an idea of project led to a demolition. Finally, it also aims to discuss if this interruption represents a fail within the project. Some questions still remained open by the published literature. The thesis, through the discovery of new documentation by the author, aims first to enlighten the conceiving and constructing processes of Regent Street. It also aims to study the relationships between the project of John Nash and the other projects, the receiving of the street and issues and matters after its construction. Therefore, the most emblematic part of Nash’s project, the Regent’s Quadrant, had never been a specific object of study before. Thanks to an unpublished sketch by hand of Nash found during this research, new inputs emerges in order to understand the peculiar shape of the Regent’s Quadrant. Another corpus of unpublished documents, related to the modifications to the original project of the street, has been found during this research in the archives, then dated and contextualized by the author in order to create a new chronology of the street building site.
La città altra / The other city. Storia e immagine della diversità urbana: luoghi e paesaggi dei privilegi e del benessere, dell’isolamento, del disagio, della multiculturalità, 2018
Durante il decennio di reggenza del futuro Giorgio IV, a Londra viene progettata Regent Street, a... more Durante il decennio di reggenza del futuro Giorgio IV, a Londra viene progettata Regent Street, arteria modello del commercio dell'impero. L'intervento studia il tradescape formatosi, attraverso le fonti dell'iconografia urbana e considerandone le modificazioni subite negli anni seguenti la sua realizzazione. In particolare, viene analizzato il ruolo delle attività commerciali, attraverso le facciate e le vetrine disegnate ad hoc durante il cantiere della strada e utilizzate poi come strumento di immagine della capitale.
During the decade of Regency of George IV, Regent Street, the commerciai thoroughfare of the Empire, was designed in London. The paper analyses the tradescape of the street, through iconographical sources of the city, considering a/so the street's modifications within the century. Particularly, the role of the stores is studied, through the facades and the shopwindows designed only during the street building site and used then as a mean of the new image of the city by the Crown.
La città, il viaggio, il turismo. Percezione, produzione e trasformazione.The city, the travel, the tourism. Perception, production and processing. VIII Congresso AISU, Napoli 7-8-9 Settembre 2017, Raccolta di saggi, 2017
In the early 19th century, the city of London was a spreading city, with some relevant new buildi... more In the early 19th century, the city of London was a spreading city, with some relevant new buildings. City with monuments was generally represented and communicated through drawing and engravings. Just before photography, the urban landscape started to emerge as focus of the representation, and streets became a main subject. In the first decades of the century indeed, important urban changes were introduced in London by the Regency, in particular by the construction of Regent Street, the new commercial thoroughfare. The paper wants to investigate how the new London urban landscape of early 19th century was told in architectural panoramas, paying specific attention to the contemporary city. The publishing of these views of London had to be intended also as a means to travellers and for travelling. In particular the paper focuses on the case of the panoramic overview ‘Tallis's London Street Views' that was openly ‘intended to Assist Strangers Visiting the Metropolis through all its Mazes without a Guide'. Nevertheless, this kind of book was not just for travellers but also for people living abroad that had the opportunity to start to visit London from their countries. Publishing was also another important factor. The ‘Tallis's Views' were published periodically as a journal and they were retained in bookstores all over the world, so that people living outside London could have a look at the new London. The peculiarity of the ‘Tallis's View' was to present streets with plans and elevations as a general overview and also with a perspective view. Above each façade there is also the indication of the name of the shopkeeper and the kind of shop. The observer point was in the size of the view and the kind of representation of the drawings that were long side folded in order to show the streets as a whole. The paper also will consider this kind of panorama in a comparative perspective.
Chapter by Noemi Mafrici
Digital & Documentation Vol. 2 - Digital strategies for Cultural Heritage., 2020
European cultural institutions hold an extraordinary tangible and intangible heritage not always ... more European cultural institutions hold an extraordinary tangible and intangible heritage not always accessible by the public for several reasons e.g. spaces, conservation, exhibition choices. Digitisation gives the opportunity to make heritage permanently available by scientists and by a wider public, placing replicas of artefacts of museums’ collections in a virtual context. This chapter is part of the B.A.C.K. TO. T.H.E. F.U.T.U.RE. project, coordinated by Massimiliano Lo Turco and presented in the preface of this volume. The research focuses on fifteen wooden architectural models of the early 19th century, part of the collection of the Museo Egizio of Turin. The maquettes are here denominated ‘expedition models of Egyptian architectures’, by referring to their original production. These artefacts suffered several moving outside and inside the museum. The aim of the research is to connect virtual replicas of the models to narratives and the historical documents gathered during the historical research. The chapter presents the collection as a whole, pointing out its historical and cultural value. With the aim to provide exhaustive documentation and to create connections between artefacts and their documentation, the structure of the build database is here described. Starting from data and metadata available through the Museo Egizio database, a complex system has been created, following the CIDOC-CRM standard for the information modelling. Specific attention has been paid to the strategy developed for the 3D web-publishing, considering the presence of a central information management system as fundamental.
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The removal of the colonnade of the Regent’s Quadrant not even thirty years after its construction is a critical matter within the architectural history of Regent Street and the social history of London as well. The Quadrant is the most known part of the street for its impressive architectural features and its peculiar shape. The original design was by John Nash, architect responsible for the improvement of the whole street and the development of Regent’s Park. Starting from 1848 and during the last two centuries, the street suffered several changes that hugely modified its architectural design. The paper discusses the chronology of the Quadrant, focusing at the years that led to the first transformation of the street. The contribution investigates this demolition and the motivations that led to it, through an analysis with sources that belong to the history of the city, among which correspondence of inhabitants, private petitions, newspapers and architectural sketches.
The study looks at the subject not only from an authorial point of view but also from the city perspective with all the social and cultural implications. It argues forms of organisation of people and their role in urban matters, examining the formation and interest of an association involved in the process of demolition of the colonnade. Finally, an analysis of the reconstruction of the image of the Quadrant, before and after its modifications, both part of London urban memory.
la sua direzione dell’Ufficio Tecnico dell’Esposizione. Le ricostruzioni si sono basate su fonti diverse, che hanno permesso di ricostruire la storia e gli sviluppi dell’Esposizione. L’articolo mette in evidenza soprattutto gli aspetti metodologici di tale trasposizione tridimensionale, discutendo come l’eterogeneità della documentazione e l’incrocio dei dati porti a ottenere informazioni a volte contrastanti.
The Exhibition of 1928 in Turin was a fundamental time for the local and Italian culture, and the Valentino Park has been the space where several new ideas were experimented. After forty years since the “missing” of the personal archive of Giuseppe Pagano, leading architect of the Exhibition, the article shows the outcomes of a research, that allowed to recreate through 2D, 3D and in virtual reality the pavilions designed by Pagano and the buildings built under his direction of the Technical Office of the Exhibition. Beyond the original designs of the architect, the reconstructions have been based on several other sources, that led to the reconstruction of the history and of the events of the Exhibition to the recreation of the buildings. The article stresses especially methodological aspects of the digitisation discussing how the eterogeneity of the documentation and the crossing of the data led sometimes to conflicting information.
The paper suggests some considerations about the Summer School Cultural Heritage in Context. Digital Nubia, within the program of the international collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). The school focused on the analysis and recreation, through the methodologies of the digital humanities, of the Nubian Cultural Heritage that was at the centre of the UNESCO rescue campaign in the 1960s.
Thesis Chapters by Noemi Mafrici
In this research, the street is studied in the context of several proposals and ideas of improvements. The study looks to the new and to the old city. The new project enlightens also some aspects of the old city thanks to the kind of sources written and illustrated produced. It enlightens the process of construction by surveying the procedures and the pre-existing conditions. The study discusses time, causes and events that from an idea of project led to a demolition. Finally, it also aims to discuss if this interruption represents a fail within the project.
Some questions still remained open by the published literature. The thesis, through the discovery of new documentation by the author, aims first to enlighten the conceiving and constructing processes of Regent Street. It also aims to study the relationships between the project of John Nash and the other projects, the receiving of the street and issues and matters after its construction. Therefore, the most emblematic part of Nash’s project, the Regent’s Quadrant, had never been a specific object of study before. Thanks to an unpublished sketch by hand of Nash found during this research, new inputs emerges in order to understand the peculiar shape of the Regent’s Quadrant. Another corpus of unpublished documents, related to the modifications to the original project of the street, has been found during this research in the archives, then dated and contextualized by the author in order to create a new chronology of the street building site.
Papers by Noemi Mafrici
During the decade of Regency of George IV, Regent Street, the commerciai thoroughfare of the Empire, was designed in London. The paper analyses the tradescape of the street, through iconographical sources of the city, considering a/so the street's modifications within the century. Particularly, the role of the stores is studied, through the facades and the shopwindows designed only during the street building site and used then as a mean of the new image of the city by the Crown.
Chapter by Noemi Mafrici