the utmost care in order to reflect his personal values and beliefs.
In his essay explaining his intentions for the design and location of Casa Malaparte, we see that the activist Malaparte intentionally chose a location and design that fitted his own views on nature and society. Malaparte was drawn to the wild, untamed, and often brute forces of nature in the selection of his location for Casa Malaparte. Malaparte wanted his house to exist in a location that most mirrored the forces of nature he felt were most characteristic of it. As he describes the location he eventually selected to serve as the foundation for Casa Malaparte, ôIn the wildest, loneliest, and most visually spectacular part of Capriàand where nature manifests itself with unparalleled brute force, there was a strikingly linear rock outcrop which looks as though it has been thrust into the sea like a stone clawö (Malaparte, p. 1).
Such a location conveyed the strength and free-spirited nature of Malaparte as well as his disdain for any place or people that did not demonstrate such qualities or characteristics. More than creating a unique house or architectural design, Malaparte was determined to provide something more along the lines of architectural autobiography, seeing his home as a reflection of his views, values and beliefs. Casa MalaparteÆs materials were also significant to Malaparte. He rejected a number of architectural theories with respect to design and material selection. He abandoned the notion that an architectural structure should fit in with its surroundings, as far as style was concerned. Though, he also believed that the materials of the house should be drawn from the same materials available in its intended natural location. As he writes in his essay about the selection of materials for casa Malaparte, ôThere would not be bricks or cement, but stone, only stone, the sort that can be found in the area itself and from which the cl...