# Italian Rationalism × Stripped Classicism — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=italian-rationalism+stripped-classicism
# Italian Rationalism carries the structure. Stripped Classicism appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Italian Rationalism (Style, 1926–1943) and its accent from Stripped Classicism (Style, 1920s–1950s). Structural cues: White volumes and a regular rhythm of bays; Deep overhangs and bands of shadow; Marble set against glass; Classical proportion, translated. Accent cues, used sparingly: The rhythm of columns stripped of ornament; A strong axis and symmetry; Smooth planes of stone; Walls without large openings. Composition: A strict frontal grid whose bays are equal and whose voids are not, so that the rhythm is regular and the reading is not.. Type and lettering: A geometric sans set to the same module as the bays, with the leading derived from the same proportion.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Large ashlar limestone or granite, honed flat, with joints fine enough that the wall reads as one continuous surface.. Mood: Trust, Luxury, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Modern Architecture, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Italian Rationalism: Keeping the white box and dropping the proportion: without the underlying ratios it is generic modernism, and the whole argument of these buildings was that the ratios were still present.
# - Stripped Classicism: Reaching for it because it looks austere and expensive: the symmetry and the blank wall make a claim of authority whether or not you intended one.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/italian-rationalism/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/stripped-classicism/design.md