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Tessin

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Tessin: see Ticino Ticino (tēchē`nō), Fr. and Ger. Tessin, canton (1993 pop.
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, Switzerland.


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This warm-hearted Latin--he comes from the Tessin, the Italian-speaking Swiss canton in the sunny south of the Alps--has friends on every continent.
Positioned at the crossroads of Europe, Switzerland has simultaneously absorbed and reinterpreted twentieth-century Modernism, producing both the Tessin school and the present architectural movement of simplicity with its emphasis on the wesentlich (significant), resulting in a stripped down architecture of extremely plain boxes.
Sjoberg I, Hakansson S, Eriksson A, Schollin J, Stjernstedt B, Tessin I.
 
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