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Rom • Rome
von • by Stefano Corbo & Qianyu Liu

www.scstudio.eu

With their work titled "From Geometry to Topology", Italian ar-

chitect Stefano Corbo and his Chinese colleague Qianyu Liu

have undertaken an attempt to develop a new form of analysis

and representation of our built environment. Using six major

cities as examples — Cairo, Rome, Beijing, Paris, New York and

São Paulo — they show how the specific urban morphologies

and the respective architectural characteristics of the individ-

ual metropolises can be brought together in a uniform, graphic

representation. They explicitly understand the newly created,

computer-generated graphics not only as instruments of analy-

sis and comparability, but also as independent artistic works.

They describe the results as "assemblages" or three-dimen-

sional collages. On this spread and on pages 008/009 and

040/041 we show the respective reliefs of the cities of Cairo,

Rome and Beijing.