Architecture, Preservation and Politics
by
Anne Parmly Toxey
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Shaped by encrusted layers of development spanning millennia, the southern Italian city of Matera is the ultimate palimpsest. Known as the Sassi, the majority of the ancient city is composed of thousands of structures carved into a limestone cliff and clinging to its walls. The resultant menagerie...