Stephen Lauf, Museum of Architecture (Venice: 5th year studio project, 1980).
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The site of the museum was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, on the land immediately behind the Palladian church of the same name.
Along with a straight-forward program of exhibition, administration, education and storage spaces, the museum was to house three somewhat monumental pieces of architecture moved from other parts of Italy--the Arch of Constantine, the facade of Santa Maria Novella, and the Porta Pia.
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Arch of Constantine (Rome: 315).
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Alberti, Santa Maria Novella (Florence: facade, 1456-70).
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Michelangelo, Porta Pia (Rome: 1562).
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