One of the most formative experiences of my architectural education was an early '80s field trip to the newly completed Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. As callow students we were astonished by the scale and assurance of it all, beguiled by the ironic take on Classicism, the integration of museum and city the punky blasts of colour. Our end of year projccts were peppered with striated stone drums, fat pink balustrades and serpentine glazing, the follies of impressionable youth imitating without really understanding.
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