The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City

Katherine Rinne

The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains,and the Birth of the Baroque City

Katherine Rinne is project director of Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome, an ongoing research project published online by the University of Virginia. The project examines the 3,000-year history of water infrastructure and urban development in Rome. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Science Foundation. Katherine Rinne has taught architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design at the University of Arkansas, Iowa State University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts. She is currently co-teaching Water Infrastructure and Urban Form in Dry Lands with the Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University.