ALESSANDRO MANZONI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SCUOLA ELEMENTARE ALESSANDRO MANZONI
Via Lusitania 18 - Porta Latina

 1932 Ignazio Guidi (1904/78)

Originally called Scuola Guglielmotti

The plan of the building is symmetrical even if the entrance is on one corner

“The two elementary schools, Guglielmotti at Porta Latina and Garroni in Ostia, are undoubtedly the first who reported Guidi’s works to the attention of the scholars of the time. Highly innovative for the floor plans and for the materials used and characterized by large windows, these two schools express with confidence and skill the strong adhesion of Guidi to European Rationalism, practically non-existent in Rome at that time” (Filippo Spaini - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

MANCIOLI APARTMENT HOUSES

PALAZZINE MANCIOLI

Via Lusitania 29 - Via Vulci 9

1953/54, PALAZZINA MANCIOLI I in Via Lusitania 29

1959/60, PALAZZINA MANCIOLI II in Via Vulci 9

Mario Ridolfi (1904/84) e Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94)

Original examples of bow-windows in a rationalist version adapted to the Fifties

“In the apartment block of Via Lusitania it is very original the solution of the windows in which the external covering transformed into a molding that frames the upper part, refers to one of the typical elements of the classical tradition of architecture” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)