
A garden pavilion inspired by Italian modernism
Architect Andrew Patterson designs a new Auckland home inspired by the symmetry and severity of late 1960s Italian modernist buildings Q&A Architect Andrew Patterson of Patterson Associates From the exterior, the building looks quite rigid in its geometry. What inspired its design? I love the severity of Italian modernism of the late 60s and 70s. In the Milan industrial suburbs, you see all these severe, panelled, modest buildings that we never saw the likes of