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Arches

2023 – 2011

A selective record of works featuring the elongated arch, from galleries and dwellings to sculpted monoliths: passages, fissures and threaded sequences across Cardillo’s corpus

Definition

An arch […] has a sacral function because it is the anthropomorphic representation of the phallus. According to Jung, the phallus represents the ‘future’, that idea-possibility of projecting-designing into the future. Thus, the arch in architecture is a powerful cultural, anthropological and psychological sign, which demands respect and devotion.

, Royal College of Art, London, 22 January 2019

Vaulted gallery with a stair and elongated arch passages.

Castiglione delle Stiviere,

Manner of Bosch

Manner of Bosch

Monolith carved with ascending passage in elongated arch.

Venice,

Fissures in the form of elongated copper arches.

Rome,

Threaded passage of decreasing elongated arches.

Trapani,

Sculpture with elongated arch shapes and hemispherical dome.

London,

Elongated arches concealing doors and cabinets.

Rome,

Threaded series of elongated arch passages.

Milan,

Elongated arch passage inside a lunette.

Victoria & Albert Museum, London,

Publications

2023 – 2012 (selected)

Theoretical writings

  • , ‘Un percorso d’integrazione’, lecture as part of the encounter , part of the series of cultural events of the Museo Agostino Pepoli, Trapani, 26 May 2023; transcript published on , 20 Sept. 2025.
  • , ‘Vaults, grottoes, arches and polychromy’, lecture as part of the ArchitekTOUR Kongress, Heinze, Station Berlin, 23 Nov. 2017; transcript published on , 27 May 2020.

Bibliography

2017 (selected)