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Per me quod erit que est que patet

In the second half of the 20th century, architects started to see the limits of modernism an it's "tabula rasa" urban planning. A new vision of the city started to emerge in Europe, the idea that the urban fabric incorporate a wide range of designs and intentions, each one being a reflect of it's epoch. Urbanist and Architect Bernard Huet made a collage named "Per me quod erit que est que patet" describing a fictional urban landscape composed of a big variety of façades, from antique roman ruits to modern glass buildings in order to illustrate this tendency.
I tried to fit this idea into an updated version of a Piranesi's Carceri using as reference the buildings I could see on my everyday life in Paris.