Modern architecture

Main building and Olympic pool Built immediately before the "Marzari" stadium (now "Braglia"), the "Dogali" municipal swimming pool was designed by the Municipality's Technical Office and the Bolognese engineer Arturo Manaresi, who was later also involved in the design of the stadium by his colleague Umberto Costanzini. The main body consists of two volumes: the first, lower and longer, and Piscina Dogali, an epoch-making photo-gallery with simple ribbon windows on both floors, houses the changing...

Viale Gaetano storchi 2 (now wide Marco Biagi 10) Located in an area undergoing profound transformation following the definitive landing of the Citadel ramparts, the GRF "XXVI settembre", built between...

Piazza Grande, via Luigi Albinelli, via Francesco Selmi Almost thirty years after the competition proposed for the site of Piazza Matteotti, in 1960 the Cassa di Risparmio launched another tender for the design of its headquarters, after moving from the premises of the Town Hall. The project is part of the 1958 Plan which aims, for the historical centre, at the decongestion of vehicle traffic through the decentralisation of some managerial and administrative functions outside. The site of the lot...

The market in Via Albinelli was inaugurated on October 28, 1931, the retail trade thus abandoned Piazza Grande where it had been held for centuries, the sellers who settled there, already regular visitors to Piazza Grande, became stable traders, definitively distinguishing themselves from the category of peddlers. The project of the covered market aimed at decongesting the city center, cluttered with stalls almost every day of the week, to protect, protect from the weather and regularize the regular...

With its mild climate and proximity to Italy, Carinthia has a tradition in architecture of Mediterranean influence. Villas and houses with a seaside appeal convey the charm of a classic summer holiday. Today, we go even further, as in the case of the Steinhaus (stone house) by Günter Domenig, on the shores of Lake Ossiach: a famous example of post-modern deconstructivist architecture. Lower Austria has a wide range of architectural surprises in store. A walk through the old town of Krems opens a window into the Middle Ages, while the Kunsthalle takes visitors back to the present...

The author of the famous Milan's Vertical Forest, architect Stefano Boeri, came to Moscow to take part in the Moscow Urban Forum and at the same time talk to us about green architecture, cities of the future and the prospects of Moscow. Stefano Boeri was born in 1956 in Milan, in the family of one of the first Italian women architects, Chini Boeri - the beginning of a definitely promising. Stefano graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan, opened an architectural bureau with partners and for a long time was involved in renovation projects all over Europe...

Four recent interventions on Milanese architecture of the twentieth century tell a good story about a theme of great topicality: the restoration of the modern heritage. Over the last century, Milan has expressed valuable designers who have been able to weave with particular skill the knowledge of the context with structural innovation, the use of new covering materials with a language in dialogue with tradition. The close link between architect, client and craftsman has produced silent masterpieces,...

Malaparte built Villa (1938-40) on Capri on a large rock. Malaparte was a very important writer, his design resembles a sort of ship but inserted in the green, with a staircase that leads to the roof where there is a sort of sunshade, overlooking the sea, as open to the sea is the study of the poet on the second floor, while below there are guest rooms and service rooms. It had a period of degradation then it was restored. He also built a small villa for the Tirrena company in Ostia (1933) and also...

Interesting is the Casa Solari in Santa Margherita Ligure (1925-28), built by Larco (1901-?) and Rava (1903-1966), one of the greatest advocates of rationalism. The job of Santa Margherita was obtained by very young people from the Solari family, who wanted apartments for themselves and some for rent; they worked under the very clear influence of Hoffman, the rigour of the secession and the simplicity of rationalism, which were merged together in an original way. The house is symmetrical and is...

Terragni's most important work is the house of the beam in Como (1932-36), considered the manifesto building of Italian rationalism. The house of the beam was a building that had no previous cultural references, in this case the architect solves it in an absolutely rationalist way. Terragni starts from an idea of Mussolini's Fascism, who considered Fascism as a glass house and therefore here too he wants to create a structure that can be easily penetrated. The area on which it operates is small...

The new cities always have a rather rigid scheme and based on the schemes dictated by the party, perhaps the most interesting one is Sabaudia. Giovannoni proposes the concept of safeguarding the environment in which an ancient monument is placed, underlining the link between the monument and the urban structure, in contrast with the policy of the redeeming that wanted the demolition of the historic centers, with the policy of the "picone risanatore" (as in Genoa in Piazza Dante), a policy that provided...

In 1930 the Italian movement of Rationalist architects (Miar) was formed, based in Milan, Turin and Rome, the only building built was the Casa Elettrica, then each of the architects took his own path, proposed at the fourth triennial of Monza (then transferred to Milan), house commissioned by Edison, where we see a clear example of rationalism. In 1931 the problems began, there was the second exhibition of rational architecture in the Bardi Gallery in Rome. Bardi was a critic and had written a report...