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Giorgio Grassi: Italian Rationalist

Giorgio Grassi (born 1935) is one of Italy’s most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as La Tendenza, associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerged in Italy in the 1960s. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, Grassi’s architecture is the most severely rational of the group: his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to historical archetypes of form and space and has a strong concern with the making of urban space. For these reasons Grassi is a non-conformist and a critic of conventional mainstream architecture.

Scenario: The party is moving through a cave inhabited by some evil cultists when we come across a fork in the tunnel. While everyone was arguing which way to go our cleric just decided to walk down the left passageway. The rest of the party ends up following him.

Dm: the tunnel leads to a sharp turn and you are unable to see what’s ahead. Do you want to look around the corner?

Cleric: yeah. I’ll peak around the corner carefully.

Dm: you see what apears to be a large bat like creature curled into a ball. It seems to be sleeping

Cleric: (looks back at party) their is a huge freaking bat guys.

Dm: you speak infernal right?

Cleric: yeah….

Creature: Is someone there?

Cleric: Nooooo…-rolls 8-

Creature:…What? Donnel? Is that you? ( refering to the previous guy we killed)

Cleric: It’s just a dream…this is your mother… im here to tell you that you’re such a good boy… -rolls 19-

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WELL GUESS WHAT I GOT IN MY INBOX TODAY:

This is single handedly the best sentence I have ever read in my entire life, I’m so pleased with and proud of myself right now. My favourite part is that the fact that they picked just one picture means they sat down and discussed which picture of a banana peel they liked best.

I ended up submitting these five haikus:

And this is Banana Peel #6 (out of ten):