Architect: Luigi Moretti

Protected: Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Structures and Sequences of Spaces

Protected: Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Structures and Sequences of Spaces

Marco Vanucci

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Protected: Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Abstract Forms of Baroque Sculpture

Protected: Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Abstract Forms of Baroque Sculpture

Marco Vanucci

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The Edge of Architecture: Cornices in the Drawing Matter collection

The Edge of Architecture: Cornices in the Drawing Matter collection

Editors

The following group of drawings are presented here as additional illustrations to Maarten Delbeke’s essay The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture.

The Values of Profiles (1951)

The Values of Profiles (1951)

Luigi Moretti

Provoked by the assertion of rational architecture, the beginnings of modern non-figurative art coincide in time with the exclusion from the world of living forms of cornices and profiles, the most evidently ‘abstract’ elements of ancient architecture. At least two reasons may be relevant to this singular phenomenon: one is… Read More