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Article: Modern Classicism.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1988
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IN 1980, 20 architects-all then little known outside their profession-designed a cardboard street for exhibition at the Venice Biennale. This so-called Strada Novissima, part of a show appropriately called the "Presence of the Past", consisted of a series of facades, one with strange Doric columns, another with a collage of arches and half-arches, still others with even more neglected features of the classical building tradition. The street marked a turning point in twentieth-century architecture. Less than a decade later, classicism is the dominant language in new building.
This change has been sudden. When the Strada Novissima was built, the tenets of ...
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