| Summary: | The paper analyses the form of the mundus as a foundation pit of the Roman city and, at the same time, as an architectural dimension capable of establishing a connection between the underworld of the dead and the overworld of the living. The deep cavity with its circular section is the formal translation of both the act of urban creation that transforms chaos into cosmos and the necessary union between earth and sky.
By attempting to unify the two pits, which are in any case responsible for the transition from the vain to the concrete, and by describing the ancient rituals of propitiation connected to them, the book aims to argue that through Architecture, and therefore through the manifestation of form, human life can aspire to eternity.
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