Moretti

About this book

"The thought of making a large edifice that expresses violence and is present in certain moments and in others expresses abandonment, in an endless repetition, like you see in a Chinese manuscript, or a Greek colonnade, or a stochastic facade system such as that of the Port Pia," Luigi Moretti wrote in a 1969 letter to Agnoldomenico Pica about the twin buildings at Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR), "brought me to think of that endless row of vertical elements that, at a certain point, either you tire of seeing, or you do not waste more time looking at once you have understood it sufficiently.