John North Hopkins		john.hopkins@mail.utexas.edu  |  Via Angelo Masina 5, 00153 Roma, ITALIA | +39 06 5846 302
Dissertation		“The Topographical Transformation of Archaic Rome: A New Interpretation of Architecture and Geography in the Early City”
Co-Advisors John R. Clarke Penelope J. E. Davies Committee Albert J. Ammerman Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry Nassos Papalexandrou Andrew Riggsby		Brief Statement of the Project   |   Prospectus   |    C.V. Two concerns overshadow most scholarship on early Roman architecture: who rules the city (Etruscans? Romans? Latins? kings?) and what are their ties to architectural output. In my dissertation I leave aside questions of authorship and contemplate what exactly people were building, how they are building, what tectonic and stylistic principles they must know in order to build the structures they choose to create, what material and iconographic choices they are making in their construction and who they must be in contact with to make all this possible. It is my hope that these questions will lead to a new understanding of the early city and the history of Roman architecture.
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