“But let’s return to that corner at the intersection—there’s the office. It’s located in a respectable, well-proportioned building. The thing that counts most in a building is proportion. The taste in the details may change, time may take its toll and erode and sometime soften graceless and flawless particulars alike.
What remains that impacts the lives of city dwellers over the years are forms and the relationships that unite them: simplicity, fluidity, harmony of volume, the clarity of the message that the building must convey, its functionality, and the balance between costs and manifestations of wealth linked to the particular use it is intended for.
Strangely enough, all these elements and more, which are considered during a building’s planning stages, seem to impregnate it to such a point as to create an actual language. Though its details are often not under stood, this language influences the way passers-by perceive its impact.”
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Piero Rivolta is an award-winning poet and novelist devoted to exploring the depth and breadth of life. Possessed of an insatiable curiosity, a love of beauty, and a talent for creating, Piero has applied his sensibilities to not only being the author of nine books, but also to being a designer, developer, manufacturer, homebuilder and philanthropist.