Modernist architecture in Italy is always surprising. Transparency, lightness and complex geometries seem to be answers to the monumental architectural style of the fascist Impero, although the architects building in the 1960s are mostly the same ones who worked in the 1920s and 1930s. Continuity, in other words. This gallery is located in the historic center of Ravenna. The building is structured by a simple grid of squares and rectangles. This could appear monotonous and unimaginative if it weren't for the ceiling, which is a translucent structure of hexagons, triangles and trapezoids. These geometric shapes have been used in Italian interior design since the Middle Ages. Especially in floor mosaics in the tradition of the Cosmate family.
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