Archinect - News2024-11-05T23:32:18-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150297347/houses-that-love-built-and-destroyed
Houses that Love Built. And Destroyed Orhan Ayyüce2022-02-04T20:02:00-05:00>2022-03-14T10:32:59-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/22/22e89e10c98777551b644da4fe7245de.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It was beautiful. It was a wreck. It blistered on the rocky hillside: a perfect dome, gray weathered concrete and granite connected by a bridge to an eroded staircase. The day was warm and bright, the interiors were crumbling and stuffy. Some rooms contained odd bits of dusty ’60s Italian modern furniture, bright-green glazed tiles and faded taupe cushions. An Italian paperback copy of Patricia Cornwell’s “Cause of Death” was left on a kitchen countertop.</p></em><br /><br /><p>The death of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/02/monica-vitti-obituary" target="_blank">Monica Vitti</a> on 2 February 2022 has brought up many stories of "the Queen of Italian cinema" whose relationship with Michaelangelo Antonioni gave birth to a dome house known as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNw4y8i6to" target="_blank">La Cupola</a> by Italian architect <a href="http://architectuul.com/architect/dante-bini" target="_blank">Dante Bini</a>'s company <a href="https://binishells.com/" target="_blank">Binishell</a>. In this five years old NYT article Leanne Shapton and Niklas Maak look into "The House That Love Built — Before It Was Gone. For Monica Vitti, Eileen Gray, and Frank Lloyd Wright, their homes were the culmination of passionate affairs. And the places they ended."</p>