27 research outputs found
Leonardo Ricci and Leonardo Savioli. An Epistolary Novel. 1943-1944
Through unpublished letters written by Leonardo Ricci to his friend Leonardo Savioli in 1943 and 1944, the paper aims to trace the early period of the two architects' careers. The documents allow us to understand how the themes Ricci developed in both architecture and painting from the 1950s onward, and more fully in the 1960s, are present in his thinking as an artist and homme des lettres already from the years just prior to the projects for the reconstruction of the center of Florence. Moreover, the contribution highlights how Ricci also began, like Savioli, to design an imaginative “Ideal City” as early as 1943. His subsequent plans for new city pieces and his quest for the Integrated City are indebted to the feelings, aspirations and nightmares he experienced during the years of World War II
Per una prossemica dell'architettura. Glauco Gresleri e il villaggio Pilastro a Bologna
In 1960 the Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari (IACP) in Bologna commissioned to Glauco Gresleri, Giorgio Trebbi, Francesco Santini and Giorgio Brighetti the project of an urban plan for a very large and suburban area of Bologna, the so-called villaggio Pilastro. Only part of it will be built. The proposal was paradigmatic of Gresleri's planning thought, which had always conceived architecture in a continuous relationship between what is empy and what is built, to create spaces where the life of the community takes place. This contribution intends to focus on how this principle was declined in both urban planning and architectural form, in the Pilastro district case. Together with the other designers, Gresleri in fact drew a fragment of cities in which the settlement principle was characterised by a careful and varied arrangement of residential and public buildings, able to generate spaces in which city life could have developed with greater intensity. This paper studies the particular attention and ability of Gresleri in addressing the issue of public space outside of the specificity of housing, creating urban environments in which the community can live a proper life: spaces whose quality aimed at allowing the greatest number of possible interactions between people and their environment. In addition to the urban project, he designed and realised one of the first residential buildings in the Pilastro. The interest and care for the external voids inevitably led to a design of the buildings and their mutual arrangement: the staircases became pivots between the lots of the building that could freely unwind to generate always different open spaces for social life. Nel 1960 l’Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari di Bologna (IACP) incarica gli architetti Glauco Gresleri, Giorgio Trebbi, Francesco Santini e l’ingegnere Giorgio Brighetti di progettare un piano urbanistico per un’area assai estesa e periferica. Di questo progetto verrà realizzata solo una parte che costituirà il primo nucleo del Villaggio Pilastro. La proposta è paradigmatica del pensiero di Gresleri, che ha sempre concepito l’architettura in un continuo rapporto tra vuoto e costruito: la cornice entro la quale si svolge la vita della comunità . Questo contributo intende mettere a fuoco come, nel caso del Pilastro, tale principio venga declinato in forma urbanistica e architettonica. Gresleri, insieme agli altri progettisti, disegna infatti un frammento di città in cui il principio insediativo è caratterizzato da una varia disposizione degli edifici residenziali e pubblici, atti a generare, grazie alla loro vicinanza, degli spazi in cui la vita cittadina avrebbe potuto svilupparsi con straordinaria intensità . Questa ricerca evidenzia la particolare attenzione e capacità di Gresleri nell’affrontare il tema dello spazio pubblico al di fuori dell’alloggio, creando degli ambienti urbani in cui la comunità degli abitanti si incontra e si riconosce come tale. Oltre al progetto urbanistico, egli realizza uno dei primi edifici residenziali del Pilastro. La cura per i vuoti esterni indirizza la progettazione dei volumi che compongono l’edificio e la loro disposizione reciproca: i lotti del fabbricato si snodano liberamente per generare degli spazi aperti sempre diversi e catalizzatori di vita sociale