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maihudson:

“It is curious that in the various disputes on abstract art it is never revealed that architectural moldings and the corrugations of certain «rusticated» surfaces are the unique nonfigurative, plastic forms in ancient architecture. A pilaster or an architrave makes representational a function no less than a leg or an arm in drawing. A cornice represents only itself. It is a pure form abstracted from objective references. The ancients knew that the form of a cornice, conditioned by its general designs as part of the formal plan of the building, was resolved in its details by relationships of scale between its various elements, like a pure musical form.”
Luigi Moretti, 1951

Villa La Califfa
Santa Marinella, Rome; 1964-67

via “Luigi Moretti: works and writings”,  Federico Bucci, Marco Mulazzani; PAP, New York (2002)