Public Art and Urban Design: Evolution of Signs and PlacemakingAbstract

By Kate Bonansinga and Danilo PalazzoCollege of Design, Architecture, Art, and PlanningUniversity of Cincinnati

2013 National Signage Research & Education Conference October 9-10, 2013 at the Kingsgate Marriott in Cincinnati

The "bronze equestrian statue of Cosimo I by Giambologna (1594). Palazzo Vecchio and the Loggia dei Lanzi on the right. The Loggia is an open-air gallery. Piazza della Signoria. Firenze, Italy

Bartolomeo Ammannati’s Neptun (1595) and the Marzocco (the Medici’s lion) by Donatello (copy). In the background the Badia Fiorentina’s campanile (on the left) and the Bargello’s tower.Piazza della Signoria. Firenze, Italy

Folon’s works at Forte Belvedere, Florence, 2005

Albert Speer and Hitler,” Berlin, 1930s

Albert Speer and Hitler,” Berlin, 1930s

Marcello Piacentini and Mussolini: Via dei Fori Imperiali, Roma, 1930s

Architecture, Art and Fascism: EUR Roma, Foro Mussolini, and the Stadio dei Marmi (Marbles Arena), Rome, 1930s

Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann (commissioned by Napoleon III), Paris Plan (the opening of Boulevards and Grand Axes), Paris, 1853

View towards La Defense and the Grand Arche from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1870s and 1960s to 1980s

Alexander Calder, Red Spider, la Défense. Paris, 1976

Major L'Enfant, Washington Plan, Washington D.C., 1793

Worthy of the Nation. Cover, Johns Hopkins University Press:Baltimore, 1977

Roosevelt Memorial, Lawrence Halprin, 1991; Vietnam Memorial, Maya Lin, 1982; The National Mall, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Washington D.C.

Zada Hadid, Contemporary Art Center, 2001/03; Peter Eisenman, DAAP building, 1996Frank Gehry, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, 1997-99, Cincinnati

Bird’s Nest Stadium, collaboration between the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron, Beijing, 2003/08.

G. Snider, Public Art: Incidental Comics, 2010

D.Buren, Les Deux Plateaux, Paris, 1986

M.Staccioli, Der Ring, Elisenstrasse, Munich, Germany, 1996; JR, Woman are Heroes, Moro de Providencia, Rio de Janeiro, 2008; H. Hofstra, The Blue Road,, Drachten, The Netherland, 2007

F. Mazzucchelli, Volterra, Cono, Piazza dei Priori, Volterra, Italy, 1973