The 1996 paperback edition of Architecture and Utopia, Manfredo Tafuri’s important text on urban modernism and ideology originally published in 1973, features an arresting etching by the architect Aldo Rossi: L’architecture assassinée, 1975, depicts teetering buildings, collapsing pylons, fissured walls, and exposed brickwork—a modernist city on the point of disintegration. A Village and Its Surroundings, the outcome of Roman artist Vittorio Messina’s 1998–99 residency at Dean Clough’s Henry Moore Studio in Halifax, presents a comparable (equally ambivalent, equally thought-provoking) “assassination”