Structure as Architecture - School of Architecture

The famous Renaissance architect Alberti perceived a colonnade as a vir-

tual wall: ‘a row of columns is indeed nothing but a wall, open and discon-

tinued in several places’.^5 Such a reading can be appreciated when

observing the interior columns at the Public University of Navarra,

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Central atrium

Gallery

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▲5.14 Contemporary Art Wing, Hamburg, Germany, O. M. Ungers, 1996. Building

exterior.

▲5.15 Simplified ground floor plan.