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Winner Announced in the Piranesi 2010 Prison Series Design Competition

NEW YORK, NY.- VandM.com has announced that Justin Hui, Cornell University, Architecture B.Arch 2011, has won the Piranesi 2010: An Interpretation of the Prison Series Design Competition. “We were looking for a fresh take on Piranesi and Justin’s design really captured that,” said Bill Indursky, Co-Founder of VandM.com and lead judge for the contest. “The Prison Series talked about the nature of man and to talk about man today means to also address technology. Justin’s wrapping and spinning space constructed in CAD perfectly captures this”. It was said that Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) got the idea for his now famous Prison Series (otherwise known as Carceri Series) when he was suffering from a strong fever. No matter what the real cause of this work was, this master etcher has left the creative community something that has delighted and intrigued them for over 265 years. The Prison Series depicts an im