Housing
blocks by Innocenzo Costantini (1854/1937), son
of Costantino Costantini and Innocenzo Sabbatini
(1891/1984). The two architects were cousins
It was
built in two stages:
1919/22
southern part with both mediaeval forms and innovative solutions
1925/26
northern part with secessionist ideas and elements of Roman classical tradition
“The
decoration is inspired by a significant movement of masses and lines, in search
of a musical space with a few notes of shadow and color generated by the slopes
of the roofs and chimneys, the boxes of flowers or the small iron motives, the
pillars of stone and bricks, or the slight overhangs of eaves” (Alberto Calza
Bini)
House for the governorship employees
1927/30 Luigi Ciarrocchi
(1902/68) and Mario De Renzi (1897/1967)
The two
architects were influenced by both Roman insulae recently discovered at
Ostia, and the Futurist avant-garde movement in vogue at the time
“At the end
of the Twenties, after some experience in the area of 'barocchetto'(Small
Baroque), Mario De Renzi built his expressive key set on the reduction of the
decorative and chiaroscuro apparatus and on the 'stylization' of architectural
elements of classical derivation. (...) The building on Via Andrea Doria
offered him the opportunity to combine this issue with solutions of Futurist
taste, visible in the way he emphasized the stairwells on the front of the
building, in the use of terraces with large overhangs, in the volumetric ratio
between ground floor and tripartite upper part” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
House for Children
1919/22 Innocenzo Sabbatini
(1891/1984)
Preschool
for children where it was tested the method of Maria Montessori. The first
Montessori Children's House was founded in the neighborhood of S. Lorenzo in
1907
Now it is
home to OFFICES OF THE ISTITUTO CASE POPOLARI (Institute of Public Housing)
“The
work of Innocenzo Sabbatini is broadly consistent with a linguistic research
aimed at overcoming Eclecticism. Echoes of the Viennese Secession, also present
in some works by Piacentini, are instantly recognizable even in this small
building” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
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