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Word: architetto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that if someone asked me to design a new universe, I'd be mad enough to undertake it," wrote young Giovanni Battista Piranesi to a friend. Nobody asked him. In fact, nobody asked him to design any major building at all, though he always signed himself Architetto. Instead, he became known to his contemporaries as "the Rembrandt of Ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architect for Dreams | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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