Thursday, August 25, 2016

PALACE FOR OFFICES OF THE "PEOPLE'S BANK OF MILAN"

PALAZZO DEGLI UFFICI DELLA BANCA POPOLARE DI MILANO

1972/73 by Luigi Moretti (1907/73) with the collaboration of Carlo Zacutti
It was one of the last works of the great Roman architect who expressed himself here in a style known as “international” very contrasting with the nineteenth-century buildings of the square, with the Mannerist Porta del Popolo and with the ancient Aurelian Walls
“Through the decorative invention and the refinement of coatings, not only Moretti testifies and investigates the possible wisdoms of tradition, but he triggers a powerful mechanism of dematerialization, calls into question the meaning of the architectural structure itself, reaching an aura of metaphysical abstraction” (Maristella Casciato)

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