it's traditional, because it has the ambition of the best modern architectures.

differently from modern projects, it has deep roots in the context.

from postmodern culture we take the joyful size, a reference which immediately comes is Alighiero Boetti.

Boetti travels around the world and from the strangest places sends a postcard of the Mole...

an imagery played on different levels: the imagery of people who live here, of people from other places, of people from all around the world.

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going over the dicotomy
modern-postmodern. Social smile.

distribution has to be extremely simple. like the machine-gun lamp or Albini's radio.

technique must always be something less than what we are really able to do.
like Mao: he wrote in a way that everybody could understand him, even peasants. much more difficult than to write as Kant did.