– Marco Vanucci

Marco Vanucci and Drawing Matter revisit three seminal texts of Luigi Moretti, not generally available in translation. Christopher Huw Evans has translated the three texts for Drawing Matter. 

The first post presented Luigi Moretti’s article ‘Eclecticism and Unity of Language’ (published in the first issue of Spazio), and the second post featured Moretti’s article ‘Abstract Forms in Baroque Sculptures’ (included in the third issue of Spazio).

This third post revisits the article ‘Structures and Sequences of Spaces’, which was first published in the seventh issue of Spazio. In it, Moretti delves into the articulation and sequencing of spaces in traditional masterpieces, ranging from Villa Adriana to Laurana’s and Di Giorgio’s Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, and from Palladio’s La Rotonda to Sangallo’s Palazzo Farnese. Moretti’s meticulous examination of architectural morphologies provided a fresh analytical understanding of space, leading to the creation of a series of models where the internal spaces are represented as solid volumes.

With special thanks to Archivio Moretti Magnifico. 

Read the English translation of Luigi Moretti’s ‘Structures and Sequences of Spaces’ here.

Marco Vanucci is an architect, the design director of Opensystems Architecture, and a lecturer in architectural design at London South Bank University. He also taught at the AA and was a visiting lecturer at KTH Stockholm. His research focuses on the origin of parametric, associative design methods and, lately, on the relationship between architecture and AI.