{"id":2251,"date":"2016-07-26T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2016-08-01T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:22:09","slug":"house-in-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/house-in-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"House in Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seeming amalgamation of the programmatic principles of modern architecture as dictated by Le Corbusier, statements by Figini himself serve this architect-designed architect&#8217;s house best, as collated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domusweb.it\/en\/from-the-archive\/2010\/12\/09\/an-architect-s-house-from-the-1930s.html\">Domus<\/a> in 1936:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Building the anti-city in the city. A brief compendium of creation in man&#8217;s dwelling. An elementary composition of objects that recur in the dreams of our desires. <\/em><em>New forms of collective life and action are among the &#8216;signs&#8217; of our era; but man also brings, and still must bring, to the four walls of the home, the desire for intimacy &#8211; a sense of irrepressible individuality &#8211; that has never been eradicated. Anti-barracks. In the house of yesterday &#8220;man forgot the immutable laws of nature and the counsel of light and shadow which regulate the course of events.&#8217;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Eliminate, purify, isolate, reduce the &#8216;terms&#8217; of the city to human percentages, to other scales of proportion. &#8216;Frame&#8217; &#8211; with panoramic squares and rectangles &#8211; the sun, the sky, the wind (and the landscape if there is one: urban or suburban, mediocre or fragmentary) as they vary with weather, time, and season.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seeming amalgamation of the programmatic principles of modern architecture as dictated by Le Corbusier, statements by Figini himself serve this architect-designed architect&#8217;s house best, as collated by Domus in 1936: &#8216;Building the anti-city in the city. A brief compendium of creation in man&#8217;s dwelling. An elementary composition of objects that recur in the dreams &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}