Just returned from what Rob and Leon Krier would call the traditional European City; Dubrovnik. A Baroque walled city originally made up two islands until the Romans filled in the gap and made a beautiful fortified city. The pattern of the city is fascinating. At once it reveals its past, its topography, its function and its climate. To the north the Roman grid climbs up the hill side, narrow and functional. To the south the city spreads and distorts into a Gothic medieval pattern of gardens, courts, Churches and palaces. The main street is the hinge that joins this all together, knowing that some time in the past this short, wonderful street would have been a narrow sea passage.
The city is small and from its walls its morphology can be drawn from above and its compelling section seen, stretching from the Adriatic from which it defends itself, right into mountains in which it buries itself.
The city is small and from its walls its morphology can be drawn from above and its compelling section seen, stretching from the Adriatic from which it defends itself, right into mountains in which it buries itself.
Here are my attempts at trying to capture the city...
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