Thursday, October 29, 2015

VIA BRUXELLES APARTMENT HOUSE

PALAZZINA DI VIA BRUXELLES


1934/35 Andrea Busiri Vici (1903/89), grand-son of the namesake architect Andrea Busiri Vici (1818/1911)

Interesting architecture with airy terraces in continuous bands

Five-storey building with eleven apartments

The family dynasty of architects Busiri Vici was notable for the enormous amount of work done in Rome and for an attachment to the traditional language of architecture, also due to a type of clients generally not eager to particular stylistic adventures

“This building is perhaps the project where the 'detachment from the times' typical of the Busiri Vicis appears to be less present: its stylistic characters converse in fact fully with the Roman architectural production of the thirties. (...) The typological scheme is organized in so as to eliminate the usual internal small courtyards: the two sets of stairs are in fact well-ventilated and illuminated directly from the covered terraces placed on both sides” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)

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