e-mail: haselber@sas.upenn.edu
Lothar Haselberger is the Morris Russell and Chidsey Williams Professor in Roman Architecture at Penn. His research interests are focused on the exploration of Greco-Roman Architecture in its practical and theoretical implications, from millimeter-refinements of ancient stone-carving to "macroscopic" aspects of urbanism, from the documentation of ancient construction drawings (focusing on the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey, and the Pantheon in Rome) to analyzing theories of design, visibility, and city building in the writings of Philo of Byzantium, Vitruvius, and others. Currently, he is specially interested in the modes and media in the ancient transmission of design, the changes and ruptures in that tradition, and the literal application of Vitruvian "design recipes" now tangible in major temples (Didyma temple; Augustus' Temple of Mars Ultor; Hadrian's Pantheon) and cities (Pergamon; Alexandria). He also directed the Mapping Augustan Rome project with David Romano.
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