Gabriel Orozco (Art21)
built observatory-house with Tatiana Bilbao (architect) modeled after
Jantar Mantar Astronomical Observatory, in Delhi

interview here

w/ reference to Casa Malaparte : ( from Le Mepris / JL Godard fame)

" the Casa Malaparte is a hybrid of ancient and modern architecture. In truth, the building looks quite shabby in 1962, its low squat profile, flaking stucco and rusting barred windows making it look like an abandoned artillery bunker from the Second World War. Could be German, could be Italian -- just like its creator, the writer Curzio Malaparte. Despite the condition, the dualism of the concept dominates... the rectilinear modernism of the actual building acting as support for the 32 steps that fan upwards to the flat roof like an inverted pyramid, creating an open platform theatre. No walls, no railings, no parapets... nothing to impede the view or the communion. This temple minimalism with its straight-line modernism and curved-line paganism exists in contradiction, a terminus to nowhere and somewhere simultaneously."