23. |
24.
|
23.
Wolf House, Ridgeway Colorado 1986–1990.
24. model for Olabuenga House, Maui, Hawaii, 1987–1990.
|
|
In a similar manner to classifying doors, graffiti, paper, and
other banal objects, Ettore evaluates architecture. To him architecture
is an object inflated with nostalgia. Educated in this field
at Turin Polytechnic during the 1930’s, Ettore decided
in 1985 he was finally prepared to design buildings. Design
becomes a visual language of integrated objects which foster
his imagination. An actual house is indiscernible from a cardboard
model of a house (23, 24): both look like the building blocks
of a child and contain roaming memories. In describing the Wolf
House (23) designed through his firm Sottsass Associati, Ettore
reminisces once again:
“...I
remember balconies with a curtain and a budgerigar cage and
big municipal halls with bollards in front to stop cars from
getting too close, and so on. They were places that seemed nicely
proportioned and balanced, well organized by people, lots of
people, with walls, stairs, windows, streets, squares, monuments,
gardens, fountains, all well laid out so that there they could
ultimately have a more or less legitimate, bearable idea of
existence, they could deposit their bodies and souls without
too many steel knives penetrating them.19
|
