Stadia: Sport and Vision in Architecture

Exhibition

Sir John Soane’s Museum

Stadia: Sport and Vision in Architecture

Fri 6 Jul '12 - Sat 22 Sep '12

Sir John Soane’s Museum
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London WC2A 3BP
Tel: 020 7405 2107

From the religious sporting competitions of ancient Greece and the often bloody games of the imperial Roman circus through to the modern sporting arena the stadium has inspired architects to create some of the largest and most technically accomplished buildings ever created. The great monuments of the classical past, such as the Coliseum, Rome, or the Hippodrome, Constantinople (Istanbul), have fascinated architects from the 15th century onwards. Sir John Soane mused upon the Coliseum in one of his lectures:

'.. a magnificent and mighty structure in its perfect state, worthy of the majesty of ancient Rome. What a splendid sight it must have been when eighty thousand spectators were seated within its walls; but how changed, how melancholy in its present wretched state, majestic, however, even in its venerable ruins'.

Entry:

Free

http://www.soane.org/exhibitions/stadia_
sport_and_vision_in_architecture