ABSTRACT
Borgoricco is a small, largely agricultural community in the province of Padua, in the flat plain of the Veneto that stretches inland from the islands of Venice. Borgoricco, like many small towns in the Veneto, is laid out on Roman town planning principles of an infinite grid of streets – cardo and decumanus. The number of allusions and references with which this small complex is packed is quite extraordinary. Like the best Post-Modern architecture, the building works at many levels from humble civic building for some visitors, to an architecture which is rich in meaning for others. A shallow flight of stairs leads to the entrance doors, which open onto a narrow corridor at right angles, with the tall library space on axis ahead. A narrow corridor leads to left and right opening out into two symmetrical exhibition rooms, which can be accessed directly from either side of the portico.
