Wednesday, October 28, 2015

VIA ARCHIMEDE 156 APARTMENT HOUSE

PALAZZINA DI VIA ARCHIMEDE 156


1930 Gino Franzi (1898/1971)

This building by the Piedmontese architect Gino Franzi is one of the first buildings for residential purposes in Rome truly modern in appearance and design

Gino Franzi also designed the Palazzo delle Poste in Naples along with Giuseppe Vaccaro

“The functionalist matrix of the project is clear from the distributive solutions, and the organization of plants, determining the very compact volume and the extremely simple lines, marked on the front on the street by the horizontal length of the loggias. (...) Even in the solution of the crowning - an attic floor which, with its articulation, is a counterpoint to the main volume and a vertical element that gives momentum and stresses the alignment of the composition - one can reread formal themes related to European Rationalism” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)

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