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Una nuova visione della città
No full textIl volume dedicato a Monza, curato da Francesca
Albani e Matteo Gambaro, è la terza pubblicazione
della serie “Architettura littoria”
che raccoglie studi e ricerche sulla vita e la
trasformazione delle città italiane durante il
fascismo, tra gli anni venti e quaranta del Novecento.
Gli scritti affrontano alcuni dei maggiori
contenuti della vicenda politica, sociale e culturale
sviluppata in quegli anni a livello locale,
con l’intento di restituire la realtà di una città
che, divenuta storico punto di riferimento per
l’intero territorio della Brianza, ambiva ad assumere
una visibilità nazionale e internazionale,
condizione che in precedenza aveva lungamente
assaporato per la presenza della Villa
Reale durante le dominazioni francese e austriaca,
interrotta però dai Savoia dopo l’uccisione
di Umberto I nel 1900 proprio a Monza.
Gli argomenti dei saggi sono dedicati a delineare
la nuova visione avviata e condotta a
Monza in quegli anni da differenti punti di vista:
la trasformazione urbanistica della città, in
particolare delle sue aree centrali; l’avvio delle
mostre internazionali presso la Villa Reale con
l’individuazione di un suo nuovo ruolo; le iniziative
pubbliche per la residenza popolare in
risposta all’incremento di abitanti indotto dallo
sviluppo dei settori produttivi; il passaggio
dall’assistenza caritatevole alla formazione di
una rete per l’assistenza pubblica in sintonia
con le decisioni del governo centrale; la realizzazione
dell’autodromo nel parco e il riflesso
della notorietà internazionale
Le opere di Gino Valle. Tra futuro e oblio / The works of Gino Valle. Between a future and oblivion
No full textGino Valle’s oeuvre, spanning a period of over fifty years, comprises a
very large number of projects and works built both in Italy and abroad.
It is an extremely complex and varied output, the result of architectural
research conducted individually or with other architects,
which always sought to respond to the social and cultural needs of
those for whom they were conceived and designed. He interpreted
the urgencies of society in the second half of the 20th century in a
personal and refined way, combining specific features of the Italian
context with a gaze turned on international developments and a unique
openness to the architectural context of the age. With passion
and determination, he explored the principal themes of the time: the
urgency of catharsis after the war, the need for “homes for all” and
the demands of the nascent social classes, from the local entrepreneurial
class to the middle class. He designed and built single-family
houses, condominiums, homes for the most disadvantaged sections
of society in consolidated settings, for the providers of social housing,
and in emergencies, as in the aftermath of the earthquake in
Friuli in 1976. He interpreted the needs of the new way of working
in the 1960s and 1970s, expressing it with different nuances: from
the offices in the historic centre of towns to the factory as a living
place undergoing continual transformation, and central business districts.
Finally, he dealt with the theme of the school complex, reinterpreting
it in a way that was innovative and singular on the Italian
scene. In fact, his system based on the principles of modularity and
seriality led to the construction of thirty schools in Northern Italy.
His pragmatic and energetic outlook, typical of his homeland and
his family, led to the creation of works of international importance,
celebrated from an early date in the journalism of the time
Icone dimenticate. La patina dell’architettura industrializzata Forgotten Icons. The Patina of Industrialized Architecture
No full textAssemblare per costruire: dieci variazioni sul tema Assembling to Build: Ten Variations on a Theme
No full textGino Valle. La professione come sperimentazione continua / The Profession as Continous Experimentation
No full textThis volume is one of the results of the international research project
coordinated by Franz Graf and Francesca Albani in collaboration
with the Archivio Studio Valle Architetti Associati with the purpose
of offering a thematic reinterpretation of Gino Valle’s achievement
between the 1950s and early 1980s. The project has involved PhD
researchers, professors and students from the Mendrisio Academy of
Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana working on this
project, which in various ways has made it possible to explore certain
specific topics.1 The intense output of Gino Valle, an architect born
in Udine in 1923, has been extensively studied in monographs by
Pierre Alain Croset and Luca Skansi,2 who have already brought out
its complexity and contradictions. This work seeks to reveal nuances
that have so far remained undetected in previous studies concerning
the collective aspect of Studio Valle’s output and its deep roots in
the society of the second half of the twentieth century. Studio Valle
was (and still is) a fluid practice, constantly evolving. Perhaps the
most correct term would be “Studi Valle”, as over time there have
been several groups of partners and colleagues who have responded
within the design and construction process to the requests of different
clients, both private and public. This new point of view has
opened up interesting reflections on the variety, the “absence of stylistic
links and ‘coherence’ between the works”,3 which have broadly
characterised the understanding of Gino Valle’s work. Certainly, as
previous studies have pointed out, this richness corresponds to an
explicit desire for experimentation beyond the purpose of creating
specific links and paths of research between the different works, but
probably the dynamics of this variety are more complex. The collective
work, together with the stimuli coming from its various social,
geographical, cultural and economic contexts, has helped to define
this at times contradictory and elusive multiplicity
La nuova Vercelli
No full textIl volume Vercelli Littoria curato da Francesca Albani e Matteo Gambaro è la prima approfondita esplorazione delle opere architettoniche realizzate durante il Ventennio nella città di Vercelli. È l’esito di un’attività di ricerca svolta presso l’Archivio Storico del Comunale, l’Archivio di Stato, l’Archivio Edilizio della Città di Vercelli, il Museo Leone, nonché l’archivio privato dell’Impresa Bona 1858 e la collezione di Riccardo Rivellino. Attraverso disegni, progetti, fotografie inedite e cartoline d’epoca è stata ricostruita la genesi dei più significativi edifici realizzati in quegli anni e del ruolo che hanno ricoperto nella Vercelli dell’epoca. Una particolare approfondimento è dedicato al piano “Furia”, importante intervento di riqualificazione urbana con ricadute non solo urbanistiche, ma anche economiche e sociali sulla città
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