1984
Master of Architecture
Alan Warner
Alan Warner traveled to Belgium, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, France, Monaco, Spain, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and the Netherlands.
Alan Warner
University of Virginia
Jury
Thomas Beeby
Richard Bender
Lawrence Doane
Richard Giegengack
Richard Keating
Michael McCarthy
Letters from Abroad
April 27, 1985
Como, Italy
The Villa Malaparte was designed by Adelberto Librera in 1932 on a rock outcropping overlooking and almost within the Mediterranean Sea. Approach by land is only along a narrow ledge of rock that has been carved from the stone, or one can ascend to the villa from the dock below. The house is essentially a stair to a plateau. This project is most unlike most other Rationalist work. This villa is private, inwardly contained, designed as a subtractive solid, and elusive in the same sense that the meaning of a DeChirico painting is enigmatic. This constantly questions what the viewer’s role is in relationship to the building. The two paths to the villa (and I can only assume that those within are qualitatively similar) are suggestive of some murky Romanticist attitude that movement is primarily a ritualistic event.
Residential study center. © Alan Warner.
Alan Warner
University of Virginia
Alan Warner
is the president of WARNER architecture studio, an American architectural consulting firm with a team of architectural designers, interior designers and medical planners. He has nearly twenty years of experience in healthcare design globally. Following his arrival in China in 2008, Warner has worked to develop an international standard of innovative healthcare design by synergistically blending the positive aspects of Chinese and western healthcare. By advocating for patients in regard to the highest standard of medical treatments and patient experience has led to multiple projects that express clarity in the treatment process and yet leads to a warm and comfortable healing environments.