44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style
About Buildings + Cities
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The New Ingredient Is Steel
After that he starts building these wild curvaceous concrete things but also starts experimenting with frames of steel joists yeah so the steel i think we should move on to. There's two projects really worth talking about maybe i'll just say something quickly about um the villa stratsey which is a ruined it's in Florence isn't it outside in the countryYeah and it was it's a kind of ruined classical like orangery or like house or something they wanted to turn into a venue. The elements of the building are these like existing masonry elements and then there are all of these steel and glass insertions including becoming a bit of a trope an amphitheater on the roof. It looks
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