{"id":3338,"date":"2019-09-08T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2019-09-10T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:12:43","slug":"soa-researchers-document-first-amphitheater-discovered-in-europe-in-150-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2019\/09\/08\/soa-researchers-document-first-amphitheater-discovered-in-europe-in-150-years\/","title":{"rendered":"SOA researchers document first amphitheater discovered in Europe in 150 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, architecture students, professors, and volunteers associated with the School of Architecture and Volterra-Detroit Foundation were offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Volterra, Italy, to help digitally archive the first ancient amphitheater discovery in Europe in 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>13 particiapnts settled into the Etruscan-era town to digitally scan and record the amphitheater, which measures approximately 84 meters (275 feet) long and 66 meters (216 feet) wide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The majority of amphitheaters known today did not have to be &#8216;discovered,&#8217; as their remains were at such scale that they were known centuries ago, like [the] Colosseum,&#8221; explains Professor of Architecture and program lead Wladek Fuchs. &#8220;As far as I know, there are no studies of the history of discoveries of the amphitheaters, for exactly that reason\u2014that most of them were never completely lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectmagazine.com\/technology\/architecture-researchers-help-document-first-amphitheater-discovered-in-europe-in-150-years_o\"><em>Architect Magazine<\/em> article for more information<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, architecture students, professors, and volunteers associated with the School of Architecture and Volterra-Detroit Foundation were offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Volterra, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1711,1389,91,1716,1714,47,145,468,1713,1098,1712,1709,1715,1065,20,1708,1710],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-RQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}