Triennale di Milano
Rationalist exhibition palace in a city park, home to Italy's permanent design museum.
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This guide to the Triennale di Milano centers on 30 May 1968, when workers, students and artists stormed the newly opened rationalist palace demanding democratic control over Italy's cultural institutions. It traces the ten-day occupation, the handwritten slogans papering the facade, and the building's own origins as a confident monument to modern Milan raised by architect Giovanni Muzio. Look closely at the pale stone exterior for traces of that standoff between order and revolt.
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