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“I almost forced myself to like the job of architect. The world
of painting would have been more suitable because, as I told
before, the approach would have been completely private
and I would have been totally responsible for what I was doing.
Meanwhile if you are an architect or a designer, there are lots
of aspects that influence the final result: the client, the manu-
facturer, the economic issue, usually very significant, the
responsibility of understanding which will be the final result,
and the final result itself. If you do a painting or make a sculp-
ture, you have the control, especially on architectural works:
they do not come out from a private formal process, but from
precise requirements.”
From ‘An open shape’,
Tacchini T’Journal n.8, 2017
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Umberto Riva
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Umberto Riva, Bar Sem, Milan, 1975-77. Detail of the
sheet metal volume for the coffee machine (ph. Umberto Riva).
Umberto Riva, E63 lamp, 1963.
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