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An Interview with Giorgio Grassi

Lucia Tozzi

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PoliticsVisual Arts and Performing ArtsPhilosophyLawmedia_common.quotation_subjectArchitectureArt historyContext (language use)Conversationgrassi tendenza urbanisticaArchitectureCult of personalitymedia_common

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In January 2007, Lucia Tozzi visited Giorgio Grassi's office in Milan. Their conversation touched on Grassi's recent work on Leon Battista Alberti, which is examined here in the context of Grassi's obliquely expressed views on contemporary architecture and the cult of personality. As perhaps the most intellectually rigorous and formally consistent Rationalist architect of his generation, Grassi's work and thinking retain a hermetic aspect, but one notable for its philosophical self-questioning and underlying political commitment. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.511