Via del Circo Massimo 1-3
1953 Vincenzo Monaco (1911/69) e Amedeo
Luccichenti (1907/63)
The two
elegant buildings have substantial differences, although similar at first sight
“Monaco was,
along with Luccichenti, one of the most influential and ardent supporters of
the opening of the architectural design to the most advanced and experimental
trends of modern and contemporary Italian art. (...) During the fifties the
Luccichenti and Monaco Studio was one of the leading studios in Rome and in
Italy in a new way of doing architecture, where the synergy of the group, the
high specialisms, ensuring a quality product and the ability to deal with
various aspects of the complex planning matters were able to make a difference:
a unique style of work that soon passed over the narrow borders to attract the
attention of critics and of the international press” (Paolo Melis - Dizionario
Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
“With the
two buildings of Via del Circo Massimo the 'bourgeois rationalism' of Monaco
and Luccichenti reached one of its most accomplished expressions. Abandoning
the plastic elements in part present in the buildings of Via S. Valentino and Via
S. Crescenziano,
they tend to develop a language mainly made up of rhythmic and repetitive
elements in series” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
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