1963/65 Luigi Moretti (1907/73),
Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (1890/1966), Giovanni Quadarella
(1927) e Morpurgo's nephew and pupil Giorgio Santoro
Five floors
above ground level and three below
“The design,
due to the language of the International Style, is characterized by the gradual
lightening of the architectural score from top to bottom, which, according to a
Michelangelesque scheme, reverses the traditional compositional hierarchy”
(Giorgio Muratore)
“Le
Corbusier proposes the horizontal blinds as a rhythmic element that gives the
façade a homogeneous configuration by removing the window from the vocabulary
of the city. Quite often then the blinds will be free from their original
appearance as a box of heavy elements to become a vertical blade with the use
of metal. As such it makes an appearance in the late sixties of the last
century, in a masterpiece among the least celebrated of modern Italian
architecture: the Propylaea of EUR, built by Luigi Moretti. 'The thought of
doing a big building - wrote to his friend, the architect Agnoldomenico Pica -
that would be violent and present at certain times and even unsubstantial in
others, in an endless repetition as a Chinese manuscript, as Greek columns, or
as the stochastic arrangement of a façade such as Porta Pia, etc. etc. has led
me to concoct that endless rows of vertical elements that at some point you
either get tired of seeing, or you have sufficiently understood not to waste
more time looking at them” (Paolo Portoghesi)
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