Steven Holl Interview: Not a 'Signature Architect' / Andrew Caruso

Illustrations for the Porta Vittoria project of 1986 demonstrate a process of urban design using a series of partial-view perspectives, which were drawn a priori and cast backwards into plan fragments. These fragments were later assembled into a “whole” urban plan, according to a concept of centrifugal movement from heavy to light in reverse of the sprawl tendency of the current city of Milan.

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