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Domus for Design
Meet Gianni Pettena, anti‑ master of radical architecture
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With his unfailing ironic smile, Gianni Pettena likes to
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explain that while his fellow architects have
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generally only built a part, often a small part, of the
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projects they designed, he, over the course of his
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career, has built “absolutely everything… or almost”. “And on a 1:1 scale,” he adds, with a dig at his Radical architect friends, who often replaced the reality of construction with the simulacrum of the model or
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In conversation with Domus, the anarchitect talks about the golden years of radical architecture in Italy and all over the world, and why he got along better with artists than architects.