ABSTRACT
Charles Robert Cockerell's designs for St George's Hall are developed from Elmes' drawings which in turn are based on graphic restorations of the Baths of Caracalla. Peter Carl argues that the concept of fragment and field came to the rescue of a world that had rid itself of universals. Blouet's reconstruction of the Baths of Caracalla was widely known and respected. In his work, Les mots et les choses, Michel Foucault studies the progression of language's autonomy. Fragments of the frieze and columns share the space with a Doric capital in the lower left foreground, and a Corinthian and Ionic capital on the left and right middle ground respectively. Meanwhile, the epistemological framework of the Dream is the unfathomable breadth of a history still running its course. Robin Evans argues, 'Projections, the invisible lines that relate pictures to things, are always directional. An action, drawings operate dialectically, between recording and projecting, between the architect's perception and that of the viewer.
