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)

APARTMENT HOUSES ON VIA DEL CIRCO MASSIMO

PALAZZINE IN VIA DEL CIRCO MASSIMO

Via del Circo Massimo 1-3

1953 Vincenzo Monaco (1911/69) e Amedeo Luccichenti (1907/63)

The two elegant buildings have substantial differences, although similar at first sight

“Monaco was, along with Luccichenti, one of the most influential and ardent supporters of the opening of the architectural design to the most advanced and experimental trends of modern and contemporary Italian art. (...) During the fifties the Luccichenti and Monaco Studio was one of the leading studios in Rome and in Italy in a new way of doing architecture, where the synergy of the group, the high specialisms, ensuring a quality product and the ability to deal with various aspects of the complex planning matters were able to make a difference: a unique style of work that soon passed over the narrow borders to attract the attention of critics and of the international press” (Paolo Melis - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

“With the two buildings of Via del Circo Massimo the 'bourgeois rationalism' of Monaco and Luccichenti reached one of its most accomplished expressions. Abandoning the plastic elements in part present in the buildings of Via S. Valentino and Via S. Crescenziano, they tend to develop a language mainly made up of rhythmic and repetitive elements in series” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)

VIALE LIEGI APARTMENT HOUSE

PALAZZINA DI VIALE LIEGI

Viale Liegi 40

1920/22 Marcello Piacentini (1881/1960)

Piacentini intervened on a building already begun, with an L shape already defined and this resulted in the not so innovative distribution system of housing

“Piacentini was influenced here by the Viennese Secession, not only with regards to the elegant chiaroscuro that distinguishes the outer surface, but also and above all, for the introduction of bow windows, absolutely unusual elements for Roman architecture in those years” (Giorgio Muratore)

VIA SAVOIA APARTMENT HOUSE

PALAZZINA DI VIA SAVOIA

Via Savoia/Via Frosinone

1920 Marcello Piacentini (1881/1960)

“The compactness of the building is interrupted both by the receding last floor articulating the profile of the building, and by the corner loggias creating void in the structure” (Giorgio Muratore)