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Aldo Rossi, Competition Model for a City Hall, Muggio, Italy, 1972 (via archiveofaffinities)

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James Wines of SITE, Proposal for The Stucky Mills in Giudecca, Venice, Italy, 1975 (via archidose)

“The proposal reverses the familiar relationship between the front of the building and its reflection in the canal. In this case, the facade becomes the canal and the canal becomes the facade. This inversion is achieved by extending the front promenade as a horizontal replica of the actual facade then installing a vertical glass wall. A hydraulic sprinkler system, suspended on a steel space frame, allows a continuous cascade of water to flow over the glass. The shimmering, transparent water wall stands out in marked contrast to the monumentality and ornate decoration of traditional facades of Venice.“

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To make a thing deliberately beautiful is a dastardly act. I do not believe that beauty can be created overnight. It must start with the archaic first. The archaic begins like Paestum. Paestum is beautiful to me because it is less beautiful than the Parthenon. It is because from it the Parthenon came. Paestum is dumpy; it has unsure, sacred proportions. But it is infinitely more beautiful to me because it represents the beginning of architecture. It is a time when the walls parted, and the columns became and when music entered architecture. It was a beautiful time and we are still living on it.

Louis Kahn, “On Architecture,” c. 1970