Abstract :
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 Sicilyʹs 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.
Keywords :
The decomposition of space , PVL House , Loos , a reduction to the bare essentials of the matrix design , Sicily , Italian Rationalism , Theo van Doesburg , 1998 , Chareau , Luciana Rogozinski , Sicily , Franco Minissi at the University of Rome , 2006 , DPN Wine Cellar , MFS House , Noto , Syracuse , Sicily , Sicily , 2003 , 2006 , PLC CafHé Mangiarebere , (tufa stone) , 2003 , layers of removal , Catania , the Land Art of Morris , Sicily , Serra and Sol LeWitt , Grasso Cannizzo , Vittoria , Scarpa , a syntactic distinction and juxtaposition of the parts , Vittoria , Neo-Plastic movement , elementarism is a movement that proposes itself for the re-foundation of the world , RGV House , Mollino