1951/54 Ludovico Quaroni
(1911/87) and Carlo Aymonino (1926/2010)
Some
aesthetic and functional innovations of this building stand out for their
originality, as the extensive use of brown bricks in the façades or the porch
on the ground floor accessible to vehicles
“The desire
to transfer in the building types for the middle-class some of the main themes
of the architectural research related to the Association for Organic
Architecture was already apparent in the Roman buildings for apartments by
Mario Ridolfi, Bruno Zevi and Luigi Piccinato. (...) This project by Ludovico
Quaroni, in collaboration with the young Carlo Aymonino, moves in the same
direction, fitting in that 'neo-realist' vein which with the Neighborhood INA-Casa Tiburtino IV (to which they both participated)
had its most radical expression. The open structure, the articulation of the
plan and of the volume, the force of the overall image, the particular use of
hard and rough materials, which anticipates in some way some of the characters
of the so-called 'Brutalism', are the issues around which the architectural
design of this building was planned” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
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