Thoughts on Everything under the Sun or I am a guilty Secularistre: the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Riola di Vergato
Giovanni Comoglio wrote about Alvar Aalto’s only building in Italy.
“It is an architecture rooted in its site but far from mimetic: its forms, the copper of the curved roof, the timber covering the outdoor transitional spaces — all express a pervasive genius loci, reinforced by the sandstone cladding quarried at nearby Montovolo, almost on site.“
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