This article revisits the early phases of the sixteenth-century reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica, particularly the vision of a cyclically regenerating building adopted by its first architect, Donato Bramante, to reveal mechanisms of planned obsolescence embedded in his project.

Planning Obsolescence. Bramante at St. Peter’s

Dario Donetti
2025-01-01

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This article revisits the early phases of the sixteenth-century reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica, particularly the vision of a cyclically regenerating building adopted by its first architect, Donato Bramante, to reveal mechanisms of planned obsolescence embedded in his project.
2025
Donato Bramante; St. Peter’s Basilica; planned obsolescence; construction history; architectural authorship; architectural drawing; antiquarianism.
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