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Luigi Snozzi<\/a> was a radical architectural designer and theorist, his works always fusing stark, rationalised geometries with progressive thought. His masterplan for Monte Carasso (a former municipality in the Swiss Ticino region) was perhaps his boldest and saw Snozzi orientate, design and construct a series of Modernist structures around an elementary school – as was his initial commission – that developed to include ten residences, two housing blocks and a bank (amongst others). Vitally, Snozzi (much like his predecessor Le Corbusier<\/a> who’s work certainly offers parallels) published an ethos for his work at Monte Carasso – as distilled here<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n Luigi Snozzi was a radical architectural designer and theorist, his works always fusing stark, rationalised geometries with progressive thought. His masterplan for Monte Carasso (a former municipality in the Swiss Ticino region) was perhaps his boldest and saw Snozzi orientate, design and construct a series of Modernist structures around an elementary school – as was …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134"}],"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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n(Considering how difficult it is to find experts, he proposed the commission should be made up of only one expert\u2014him.)<\/em><\/li>\n