Transcription: It's not often that an architect gets the opportunity to reinterpret such a beautiful ruin. It is an opportunity to tamper with history. It is the garden here which correctly determined the nature of the house. The architect might have designed a building which challenged the Roman idea of the suburban villa. As it is, the new house is certainly less formal and imposing than the original house which occupied the site, an accurate comment about the society in which we live. But the formal and cemented The symmetrical nature of the plan of this new house is very much in keeping with the classica ...
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