Tuesday, November 17, 2015

APARTMENT HOUSES ON VIA DEL CIRCO MASSIMO

PALAZZINE IN VIA DEL CIRCO MASSIMO

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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