ABSTRACT
Between 1985 and 1991, at the same time that he was writing Monsters of Architecture, Frascari extensively renovated and remodeled the Stanza Rossa in Vicenza. In 1993 he designed, with Claudio Sgarbi and Alice Chun, a Dream Tower for an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati; and in 1997 he published a book chapter titled “The Pneumatic Bathroom.” 1 The Stanza Rossa, the Dream Tower, and “The Pneumatic Bathroom” reveal a theoretical and practical trajectory concerning Frascari’s desire to develop and demonstrate ways of nurturing happiness through the design of bathrooms. In typical fashion, he approaches this project in a way that challenges current practice and encourages new and meaningful ways of understanding and conceiving bathroom design.
