44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style
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The Re-Inhabiting of the Form of the Ancient Form With Industrial Materials
The buildings are entirely made of industrial material. They take the shape of an imagined bazilliqa on a hill with these tiny slit windows and concrete frame truss roof which is exactly like old St. Peter's or one of those ancient Roman bazilliqas. The historical recreations in the university were quite sterile here somehow the industrial re-inhabiting of the form of this ancient form with industrial materials actually feels really fruitful and light.
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