1953/56 Mario Ridolfi (1904/84)
and Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94)
19
apartments, 3 stores on the main front and garages below the level of the road
The top
floor was used by Mario Ridolfi as his studio until the early Seventies
together with Giulio Rinaldi, Wolfgang Frankl and Domenico
Malagricci
Ridolfi
moved later to Marmore near Terni, where he committed suicide
“The
building is furrowed by deep grooves, corners are rounded and often ruffled by
the projections of the windows. The crown is defined by a parapet inclined
towards the outside: in the language of Ridolfi and Frankl seem to emerge
suggestions with a medieval flavor” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
“Formed in
the wake of the great Roman tradition, the one of Borromini and Carimini, of
the artisans who came to the architect craft through the initiation of menial
jobs (he was a decorator and then designer), Ridolfi documented its unique
realism of classical clarity through countless drawings: geological layers of
signs that made up to order beams, stones, brick walls in an organic and
necessary relationship. A difficult summary, built with patient, loving toil in
which the eye recognizes, however, the charm of an essential, familiar
simplicity” (Giuseppe Strappa - Repubblica of 19 marzo 1998)
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