Giorgio Grassi

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Giorgio Grassi (born October 27, 1935 in Milan, Italy), is one of Italy's most important architects. Much influenced by Wittgenstein and Loos, his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to historical archetypes of form and space and has a strong concern with the making of urban space. For these reasons Grassi is a non-conformist and a critic of conventional mainstream architecture. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano university where he graduated in 1960. He worked for the magazine Casabella for 3 years until 1961 and has been professor at a variety of universities since 1965. Since 1977, he has been teaching architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. He is well known for his writing and his architectural style. His designs are referencing to the modern movement and to historical buildings from past centuries at the same time. Grassi's trademarks are his use of exposed brick in most of his buildings as well as square windows. In his writings, he refers to the socialist German architects of the 1920s as well as references to selected public buildings and public spaces as his guidelines.

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