Danteum is designed with use of geometrical manipulations and golden section. It is symbolic of Dante and Imperia. As a visitor, one takes on a journey, and moves through spaces as one would move through the chapters of the Divine Comedy, where every change of environment in the book is represented physically in the change of level in the Danteum. As opposed to finishing in Paradise, difference is that Danteum journey ends in the room of Empire which is positioned as to lay parallel to the Via dell Impero, street on which Danteum is located, thus making Danteum a microcosm of Terragni’s conception of the Empire.
from: ' The Danteum', p.40 and p.55
Schumacher, Thomas L. The Danteum. New York : Princeton Architectural Press 1993.
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