Monastic architecture and the city

Abstract

The international colloquium on “Monastic Architecture and the City” aimed to explore the territorial and urban dimensions of the religious orders, considering the role of monastic architecture in the construction and transformation of territory, landscape and urban forms within a broad geographic and chronological span. The main aim of the symposium was to bring together researchers from various academic areas to discuss the relationship between the “city” and “monastic architecture” in a diachronic perspective.