LUISS UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITÀ LUISS
Via Parenzo 5/13

 1930/31 Pietro Aschieri (1889/1952) 
It was originally built to be the House of work for the war blind

1990/95 restored by the Studio Passarelli

Faculty of Law, one of the six locations of LUISS University in Rome, including the historic building on Via Pola 12 and the new headquarters on Viale Romania 32
Prestigious private university with faculties of economics, law and political science, admitting 1,295 students a year

“The geometric and compositional repertoire comes to terms with the tradition of the Roman Baroque style, which Aschieri rereads according to the international scene of the Modern Movement. The intervention of the Studio Passarelli recovers the clarity of the original plan through the demolition of the additions and adapt the structure to the functional new demands” (Giorgio Muratore)

“It is the most complex work built by Aschieri in those years. (...) The area chosen, vaguely rectangular in shape but limited to the south by a bend in the road, had a steep slope. It was these morphological features to suggest a site plan rich in visual perspectives, differentiated because defined by the succession of two distinct elements and set at different heights from the road” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)

PALACE OF IMI AND OF THE ITALIAN EXCHANGE INSTITUTE

PALAZZO DELL'IMI E DELL'ISTITUTO ITALIANO CAMBI

Via Quattro Fontane 121

1953/56 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) in collaboration with the Studio Passarelli

The IMI was the ISTITUTO MOBILIARE ITALIANO (Italian Chattels Institute) founded in 1931

In 1998 it merged with the ISTITUTO SAN PAOLO and became SANPAOLO IMI

“One of the first major competitions in Rome after the war. The project has two aspects. The front on Via Quattro Fontane, between S. Carlino by Borromini and an austere convent building, conveys the relationship between past, existing buildings, the environment, with topical thoughtful novelties” (Official Website Studio Passarelli - www.studiopassarelli.it)

MULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING

EDIFICIO POLIFUNZIONALE

Via Abruzzi/Via Romagna/Via Campania

1963/65 Lucio Passarelli (1922) with his brothers Vincenzo (1904/85) and Fausto (1910/98) plus other members of their staff

One of the most interesting works of Italian architecture of the post-World War II period

Curtain wall at the bottom and rough cement in the upper part

It houses the Passarelli studio

CENTRAL NATIONAL LIBRARY VICTOR EMMANUEL II

BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE CENTRALE VITTORIO EMANUELE II

Viale Castro Pretorio 105

1965/75 Massimo Castellazzi (1901/77), Tullio Dell'Anese and Annibale Vitellozzi (1902/90). They won the competition held in 1959 and followed the so-called international style for this project

It was restored in 2003 by the Studio Passarelli

It is also known as BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE CENTRALE DI ROMA

Area of 56,000 sqm (14 acres) largely corresponding to the CASTRA PRAETORIA, the barracks built by Tiberius (14/37) in the years 21/23 for the permanent guard of the emperor

It was established in 1875 on the basis of the library of the Jesuits at the Collegio Romano and other sixty-nine libraries of religious congregations

There are about 4,500,000 books including a copy of the first book printed in Rome in 1468 and a copy of the Vaticinia by Nostradamus with eighty mysterious images painted in watercolor

Also about 100,000 ancient documents, including 8,000 manuscripts and 2,000 incunabula

It is the second library in Italy for number of books, the first being the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence