Ahhhh, Roma.I now know what a deer feels like just before it gets run over by a truck, while inhaling another truck's exhaust.
Anticipating Romes drawbacks, we had a nice time there. How can you not at the Pantheon. 
Piazza Campidoglio
Some of the more interesting chapels are ones that have a dynamic context surrounding or preceding the focal point: a formal cloister, a crooked narrow street opening up to a tiny plaza, or a small arcade leading into the tempietto courtyard.
Vatican. The guidebooks said stay way from going on the free Sunday of the month, we didn't listen: it was an interesting lesson in crowd control. 
Rome's ruins
Hodgepodge architecture, renovation and reuse of structures.
Only a few modern buildings on our list we visited. Meier's Ara Pacis Museum.
Piano's Parco della Musica. Whether you like the beetle-like structures is a matter of opinion, but I found the parti of the complex interesting: circulation and lobbies under an outdoor amphitheater with stairs leading up to individual enclosed auditoriums.
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