"Antonio Averlino and Saul Steinberg's architectural tracings of horizons."

By Marco Frascari
Washington-Alexandria Architectural Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

They trace horizons. This is because Averlino and Steinberg's graphic gestures place themselves beyond the mere representation of nature, even though it remains consciously inscribed in it. Humorously attentive architects, they know that architecture is an analogon of nature, since both move at the fundamental level of forces: nature produces horizons, while architecture catches them. And by catching horizons architecture performs and justifies the elementary forms of vision within their genetic process, making space, discovering horizons, joining the rhythm of the universe, and being conscious that in the simultaneous movements of the picture this rhythm continuously re-presents itself.