Luigi Moretti
Subtitle: Works and Writings
Contributors: Nancy E. Later (Editor); M.de Conciliis (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781568983066
Subjects: Individual architects; Architecture; Individual Architect; Architecture / General; Luigi Moretti; Non-Classifiable
First sentence: "The thought of making a large edifice that expresses violence and is present in certain moments and in others expresses abandonment, in an endless repetition, like you see in a Chinese manuscript, or a Greek colonnade, or a stochastic facade system such as that of the Port Pia," Luigi Moretti wrote in a 1969 letter to Agnoldomenico Pica about the twin buildings at Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR), "brought me to think of that endless row of vertical elements that, at a certain point, either you tire of seeing, or you do not waste more time looking at once you have understood it sufficiently.