Elements of the Vertical City, project, Rome, Italy
Friedrich St. Florian
American, born Austria 1932
1965-66
A series of large graphite and ink drawings on cardboard by Friedrich St. Florian that imagine a vertically stacked city for Rome, arranging housing, streets, and public life into layered, compact forms.
The works immediately register as precise, rhythmic elevations—tiers of terraces, stepped volumes and tight grid lines in soft pencil and stark ink that make the cityread like a monument and a lived neighborhood at once.
Produced amid 1960s debates about modern urbanism, these projects translate theoretical ideas about density and mixed use into vivid, buildable images, helping to shape later thinking about vertical, context-sensitive urban design.
Medium
Graphite and ink on cardboard
Dimensions
Each: 36 x 28" (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Accession
1291.2000.a-c
Art Terms
Exhibitions
