Piazza Bologna 39
1934/35 Mario Ridolfi (1904/84) in collaboration with Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94) from a 1931 project of Ridolfi himself and Mario Fagiolo who, immediately after, gave up the profession of architect
“Over the years, several changes have altered the original figurative coherence of this intervention, influenced by Central European experiences. It does constitute a pinnacle of the Italian architectural production between the wars” (Giorgio Muratore)
“Ridolfi planned a project that some liked to call 'Expressionist Rationalism'. This post office can not only solve the square but also identify with it; in fact, when one thinks about Piazza Bologna one immediately thinks of the post office as a very strong formal element, characterizing the urban environment that surrounds it. (...) The whole system of the neighborhood in a radial pattern ends up having as a core this element, very strong architecturally. Looking from the side façade it is visible the curve that echoes the 'Roman Baroque style'“ (Ghisi Grütter)
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