Purple Institute
[March 20 2014]
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Hidden in the hills of Umbria, between Rome and Florence, is TOMASO BUZZI’S masterpiece of architectural fantasy, LA SCARZUOLA, begun in 1956 around an abandoned 13th-century Franciscan monastary. This decades-long project has become his aesthetic legacy, continued since his death in 1981 by his nephew, who sees visitors by appointment. French writer Patrick Mauriès decodes the esoteric assemblage of symbols and the accumulation of architectural references that comprise Buzzi’s Ideal City. Photo Gianni Oprandi
