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Leopold Banchini

Asympta . Pantalica

Leopold Banchini Architects . photos: © Simone Bossi

Little is known about the people who lived and buried their dead along the Anapo river. Pantalica – a complex of over 4000 thumbs carved in the rocks a millennium BC – doesn’t tell us much about the way the living found shelter. Since very few traces of commoners’ architecture has been found, we can only imagine that the valley’s inhabitants used light construction technics and local organic materials to build their homes. Continue reading Leopold Banchini

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Villa Montasser . Mies

Leopold Banchini @leopoldbanchini . photos: © Rory Gardiner

Ferdinand Hodler painted mountains reflected in Swiss lakes, again and again. He was obsessed with this double inverted landscape, constantly evolving with the changing sky and the movement created by the wind blowing on the water’s surface. In 1867, aged 14, he painted his first lakes and sold them to passing tourists. In 1918, fifty years later, he died in Geneva, leaving behind a few unfinished sketches of Mont-Blanc reflected in Lake Geneva, as seen from his apartment balcony. Continue reading Leopold Banchini

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Round About Baths . Logroño

Leopold Banchini @leopoldbanchini . photos: © Gregori Civera

Cars dancing endlessly round and around, drawing inaccessible circular spaces punctuating our cities, looking for meaning.

What about roundabout what? Continue reading Leopold Banchini

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