“In an epoch where aesthetic values are often sacrificed to pragmatic criteria and the need for excessive budget limitations doesn’t permit concessions to the beauty of technological systems, it is a real pleasure for me to have been able to admire the aqueducts designed by Carlo Cometti and Mike Dolinski, where the functionality of the technological installations is perfectly accompanied by the composition of architectural solutions….A careful investigation of the works demonstrates the two primary tasks of the designers: the job of the engineer is to respect the physical-natural laws and knowledge of resistance and performance of materials; the job of the architect is the capacity to create the whole composition in space…..The works of Cometti and Dolinski, in the sincerity of the building materials, in the dialectic and synthesis between function and form, are elegant and an artwork that touches us far and above the technical-hydraulic problems of building.”
Clemente Tajana
liberally translated excerpt from the catalog
“ACQUA I serbatoi fra ingegneria e architettura “
Associazione Culturale Archivio Cattaneo 2014