1928/32 Giuseppe Capponi (1893/1936) for the Company Nervi and
Nebbiosi
Elegant
building in stylized forms reminiscent of Francesco Borromini
The
Sardinian Giuseppe Capponi, also author of the Institute of Botany and Pharmacology
of the University La Sapienza, was representative of the Italian
Movement for Rational Architecture (MIAR)
He
tragically died on the island of Capri only 43 years old
“In the
process of the renewal of the architectural language that developed in Rome in
the second half of the twenties, the research of Giuseppe Capponi has a special
role because it is directed towards subjects unrelated both to the echoes of
the Vienna Secession, and to the ambiguities of 'Barocchetto' (Small Baroque).
In this work (...) the interest is mainly focused on the formal values of the
curved surfaces presented through a modern reading with geometric
characteristics typical of some Baroque works. (...) The semi-cylindrical
grooves of the façades allow to withdraw some rooms and remove the central
courtyard so that it can be replaced by two small cloisters that light up the
spiral staircase and the service areas. (...) The building has two apartments
per floor featuring some interesting distribution solutions because they are
lacking corridors and disengaged only by a pair of atria” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
Here lived
the architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891/1979) in the period in which the Company
Nervi e Nebbiosi took care to carry out his plans for the 1960 Olympic Games:
the Corso Francia viaduct and the Palazzetto dello Sport (Sports Hall)
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