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Casa Girasole reviewed by Reyner Banham (1953?) [1/5]
"Suffering a certain moral amputation; deprived of the discipline of designing outwards from an original planning solution, the Roman architect, to produce convincing buildings, must compensate with a visual discipline so brilliant as never to give the impression that he is avoiding the pitfalls of Eclecticism, a formal discipline so exacting as to galvanize a conventional layout into new, expressive life. Few of the architects in Rome can body out this ideal, can resist the temptation to relapse into Empiricism or Imperial bombast, and of these few the most notable is Luigi Moretti.
Casa Girasole reviewed by Reyner Banham (1953?) [1/5]
"Suffering a certain moral amputation; deprived of the discipline of designing outwards from an original planning solution, the Roman architect, to produce convincing buildings, must compensate with a visual discipline so brilliant as never to give the impression that he is avoiding the pitfalls of Eclecticism, a formal discipline so exacting as to galvanize a conventional layout into new, expressive life. Few of the architects in Rome can body out this ideal, can resist the temptation to relapse into Empiricism or Imperial bombast, and of these few the most notable is Luigi Moretti.