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44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style

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The Dark Window of Turin Turin

It's influenced by several things one of which is approaches to history the earlier and sediments feel like they're very like it informed by the empty industrial city. The squareness um sort of rigidity of the windows which could be any you know it could be almost could be London It almost could be Senate House or and it almost could be oh yeah it's very much of the same moment as Senate House isn't it I mean a Senate House actually so this is a building in uh in Bloomsbury for the University of London but the Italian ones feel to me the windows stately and dark feel a bit more also like these great Roman mast walls with their you know gaping eye socketsYeah

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