November 10: Katherine Rinne
A graduate of the UC Berkeley M. Arch. program, Katherine Rinne teaches advanced level architecture/urban design studios and seminars at California College of the Arts. Author of The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City (Yale University Press, 2011), her independent research on water infrastructure has garnered numerous awards and fellowships, among which are the Guggenheim and Fulbright.
Katherine will talk about her new book The Waters of Rome, which explores many of the aesthetic, topographic, technological, political, social, cultural, and urban changes that the construction of new water infrastructure engendered in Rome at the beginning of the baroque period. The book offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn Rome from a medieval backwater into the preeminent city of early modern Europe. Her book shows how these public works projects transformed Rome in a successful marriage of innovative engineering and strategic urban planning. Between 1560 and 1630, in a spectacular burst of urban renewal, Rome's religious and civil authorities sponsored the construction of aqueducts, private and public fountains for drinking, washing, and industry, and the magnificent ceremonial fountains that are Rome's glory.
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