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Building as Refined Object: The Architecture of Antonio Citterio |
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| Authors: | Sebastiano Brandolini |
| Abstract: | Sebastiano Brandolini describes the work of Antonio Citterio who, despite a low-key personal presence on the Italian architectural scene and an architecture of quiet restraint, has gained an enviable international reputation for his elegant and ‘impeccably well-made’ buildings. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | Rationalist tower office on Via Cerva in the heart of Milan built works are almost exclusively for private clients recognition in Germany factories in Brianza private houses in Italy Germany and Switzerland Hotel Bulgari Milan 2004 strongly believes in architecture as a combination of form and function Citterios architecture is made primarily of planes parallellpiped forms solids and voids colours with their reflections and shadows functional and direct and elegant without being trendy |