Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952)
In 1952, Italian architect Luigi Moretti wrote an editorial for the 7th issue of the Italian magazine Spazio, (which he directed and designed), titled “Structures and sequences of spaces”. In his article, Moretti proposed a spatial reading of several architectural works (from Villa Adriana to Guarino Guarini’s Church of San Filippo Neri) conducted with the help of a series of plaster cast models representing the interior, negative, space of the analyzed buildings. Plans and small schemes showing the “pressure” of the architectural volumes on the void accompany the photos of the models.