Architect: Lauretta Vinciarelli
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique
23 February 2021
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique23 February 2021
The grid has served as ‘the image of an absolute beginning’, as Rosalind Krauss affirmed in 1986 in ‘The Originality of the Avant-Garde’. [1] Although Krauss was referring to visual art, her pronouncement might be even more true for architecture. One need only look to iconic modernist examples by Le… Read More
Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types
26 June 2019
Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types26 June 2019
By Caitlin Murray
Lauretta Vinciarelli was born in 1943 in Arbe, Italy and raised in Rome. In the mid-1960s she attended graduate school at the La Sapienza University in Rome, earning her doctorate in architecture and urban planning in 1971. As a student she encountered the typological and vernacular approaches to housing and… Read More
plan projection (axonometric isometric) art practice culture garden