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Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo
Author(s) -
Locci Massimo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.457
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , art history , sicilian , art , rigour , graffiti , work (physics) , humanities , visual arts , archaeology , engineering , philosophy , history , epistemology , mechanical engineering , linguistics
Massimo Locci describes the work of Sicilian architect Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, ‘an obstinate perfectionist with a great deal of charisma’ who works with ‘functional rigour’ and ‘absolute formal abstraction’. He explains how, in the sensitive context of Sicily's historic urban centres, Grasso Cannizzo has taken early 20th‐century buildings, cleaned up the exteriors and emptied the interiors, and rigorously inserted her own ‘rarefied pieces’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.