Open Hand in Venice.

The article highlights Venice, Italy which is the greatest of museum cities and has largely resisted new architecture ever since the facade that closed the Piazza San Marco which was built during Napoleonic days. It notes that Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptions. Moreover, France's Le Corbusier has come to solicit a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged.